ok, embarrassing enough, I posted code that I need explained. Specifically, it first chains absolute value and subtraction together, then tacks on a sort, all the while not having to mention parameters and arguments at all, because of the presense of ‘adverbs’ that can join these functions ‘verbs’
What (non-APL-type) languages support this kind of no-arguments function composition (I have the vague idea it ties in strongly to the concepts of monad/dyad and rank, but its hard to get a particularly easy-to-understand picture just from reading Wikipedia) and what do I call this concept?
This is similar to pointfree style; this works though composition and currying. Functional languages such as Haskell and ML use this.
Concatenative programming languages like Joy, Factor, and Cat also have these ‘adverbs.’