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The origin of the pipeline operator (`|>`)

These days a lot of programming languages (especially those leaning towards functional programming) offer a pipeline operator (|>), that allows you to feed some data through a “pipeline” of transformation steps.1 Here’s a trivial example in F#: Funny enough, even Ruby has a pipeline operator these days, although it’s not particularly useful there. ↩

22 May 2025

Bozhidar Batsov

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