Thinking in verbs rather than nouns
Considering the process of data transformations in terms of verbs rather than nouns is very typical for a functional approach as functions are intuitively associated in our brains with actions, not objects. You may notice the single data item in the script Ch1_3.fsx, which is hugeNumber. The rest are few library functions combined in a certain manner, which transform the hugeNumber data item into a line of the console output. This manner of function combination allows persons reading this code to completely ignore intermediate results of the data transformations at each point where the operator >> occurs in the expression.
The less obvious corollary of this combination is the opportunity for the F# compiler to ...
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