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by WoahNoun 1075 days ago
>"build a pipeline and feed data into it."

Arrows in Haskell are actually pretty good at building functional left to right data processing pipelines.
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Waterluvian 1075 days ago
Yeah for sure! The tricky, prickly part of talking about FP is that we get into semantics a lot (eg. I'm sure there's Haskell experts who wouldn't consider JavaScript's `Array.prototype` functions to count as FP). Generally I'm thinking about `foo.map` vs. `for n in foo...`. Maybe "imperative" is a bit of a loaded term for this point.
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epgui 1075 days ago
Arrows [1] are great, not sure why you were getting downvoted on that.

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[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Understanding_arrows

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