> it’s also a fairly strong contender as a programming language in the paradigm of many pipelined imperative processes—probably because that paradigm remains largely unexplored.

The paradigm is called point-free programming[1], right? I don't know how "imperative" is relevant here--you can rewrite most of the coreutils in Haskell, for example.

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming