How is omitting the names in any way beneficial? It all ends up as memory addresses in the end. Surely the important point is the sequential data flow. I often

How is omitting the names in any way beneficial? It all ends up as memory addresses in the end. Surely the important point is the sequential data flow. I often use point-free style myself (pipelines), but I'd never pretend it's good practice. Pipelines are a quick-and-dirty hack for when you're too lazy to use a better programming paradigm. They're "write only", in that it's quicker to write one from scratch than to understand an existing one. "Tacit programming" as a concept sounds like typical mathematicians' obscurantism, like their love of single-character variable names and implicit operations.