It's not backwards. The text is linear, but the code isn't. It's outer most nested function to the innermost nested function.

Makes most sense if you think of HTML

<html> <body> <div> </div> </body> </html>

would compose as

compose( html, body, div )

`(root (mean (square x)))`

Is this more readable?

`x ~> square . mean . root`

Where `~>` "sends" a value to a function `x ~> f := f(x)` and `.` is the "backwards" function composition `f . g := \x (g (f x))

I think I prefer the "backwards" notation ("root mean square"), but I can see the appeal of "square mean root"