I bet Lispers would beg to differ. :D Nested function do one thing on a chunk of data, then another, then another. *nix pipelines apply all the filters at onc

I bet Lispers would beg to differ. :D Nested function do one thing on a chunk of data, then another, then another. *nix pipelines apply all the filters at once and control the scheduling and lifetime of the filters. Those are quite different concepts, and I think it's confusing to conflate the two. Plus every decent editor can handle paired parentheses.