[njharman]

> all(map(func3, filter(func2, map(func1, zip(a, b))))

That is super readable to me. Working left to right or inside out. There is one, clear, balanced, familiar, consistently used punctuation to guide you, parens, if you need it but adds little noise if you dont.

The “bunch of functions taking and returning an iterator” is a great paradigm. So clean and flexiable, and powerfull. ESP combined with Python’s “many things are iterable” and is trivial to write your own iterator

[faitswulff]

I come from Ruby, but it’s pretty unreadable to me. Not that I couldn’t, I just don’t want to. So I doubt that it’s objectively super easy to read.

Any sort of reading inside out, right to left is a barrier to easy reading. This is why people like pipes in functional languages, right? You just read it in one direction.

[lifthrasiir]

I have used Python for decades (not so much nowadays, but still) and it is very unreadable for me. It's clear that it is a data pipeline but the input and filters are all in a wrong order, thus backtracking is required for reading. I have the same complaint about str.join.