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I’ve often come across a pattern in code where you organize some computation by passing collections through a pipeline of operations. I first came across it in Unix, did it in Smalltalk and Ruby, and find it common in functional programming. I’ve written an article to describe this pattern, and this is the first installment which contains an initial introduction and a definition of the pattern.