The Importance of Initial State in Array Languages

In most of the array languages that I know of, well, first of all, they're mostly all interpreted, not compiled. And the different types that are available in languages are usually pretty restricted to just a few different types. So another example of that might be, let's say I'm doing a string and I want to maybe concatenate something like an exclamation point on the end of the string. So I could say, here's my string concatenate exclamation point and then like power three and that would add three exclamation points to the end, maybe. Right? The idea is you're just taking the result of that thing and plugging it back in as the