I don't understand these kinds of leadership/management. What they want clearly isn't a tech company. They don't want technical wisdom, insight, nor vision. Why bother hiring in-house SWE's at all?
They should just stick with consultants and contactors.
In terms of debugging inconvenience for intermediate values, `->(x) | a | b | c` is the same as `c(b(a(x)))`.
I find debugging /w a REPL using functional-esque code much easier. You can play around and exec/inspect lines/snippets at will without changing state & "breaking" the debug session.
Agreed they are pretty much the same inconvenience level, but for me that level is too much either way. Maybe it's just my workflow, but I always preffered step-by-step debugging compared to REPL which is why I like to see many intermediate results being named.
