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(because (there (is (such (a (thing (as (too (many parens)))))))))

I think you meant many_parens(too(as(thing(a(such(is(there(because)))))))).

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.

    > I bet Lispers would beg to differ. :D

Would they?

I wrote and read threading macros all the time when I used Clojure. Turns out it cleans up code.