Three completely unrelated things I guess. 1. Expressiveness is important? Expressiveness is why I don't like Perl. 2. You can certainly implement patterns an

Three completely unrelated things I guess. 1. Expressiveness is important? Expressiveness is why I don't like Perl. 2. You can certainly implement patterns analogous to OO in functional programming with closures and first-class functions. 3. Reading in the order of execution via chaining is definitely a lot more intuitive than reading from the inside out or right to left.