If I'm not mistaken, it reads from bottom to top. I hated the function application direction my whole life, even in math (I read and write from left to right, so f applied to x should be x f), but it is ridiculously bad in Haskell.

I prefer it, personally. Especially when pointfree. Way easier for me to read at a glance.

You can use `>>>` from `Control.Arrow` to switch the order if you don't mind make your code more esoteric.

Control.Arrow is in base at least :)

The & operator in Data.Function--which is just flipped $ with slightly higher, but still very low, operator precedence--at least gives you a way to deal with this in base; it's unfortunate it isn't more widely used in tutorials and example code (at least from what I've seen).