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Haskell operators are generally well-chosen to have a consistent visual language:

* $ is "function application" - f $ x = f x, but lets you elide nested parens: f $ g $ h x = f (g (h x))

* & is "reverse function application" x & f = f x. This reads nicely in pipelines as "and"

* <$> is "fmap" what is like a lifted application over a structure: f <$> [1, 2, 3] = [f 1, f 2, f 3]

* <&> is "reverse fmap", which is nice when you have a big lambda

* Anything in <_> brackets is generally a "lifted" version of some operator

* And so on



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