[chriswarbo]

> The former is much more readable from and LTR English language PoV. In Haskell I need to start from the right and work my way left;

For short chains, pronouncing `.` as "of" works well in English, e.g. `sum . tail $ foo` is "the sum of the tail of foo`, and it follows the same order as nested function application: `sum (tail foo)`.

I agree the the other way around, e.g. a "then" operator `>>>`, is easier to understand with long chains: with `f . g . h . ...` we have to remember `f`, `g`, `h`, etc. in a "mental stack", until we get the the end. With the other way round, `... >>> h >>> g >>> f` we can "mentally apply" each function to a "mental accumulator" as we encounter it.