It's a style I really enjoy, and it's definitely not exclusive to one language or paradigm, exactly. I see it as more of less of a kind with pipelines in Unix s

It's a style I really enjoy, and it's definitely not exclusive to one language or paradigm, exactly. I see it as more of less of a kind with pipelines in Unix shells, too. In Scala, a language with OOP heritage and support, plus lots of functional programming features, some of the most common methods you use in such chains are monads.