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I've long been a fan of the programming pattern that I call the collection pipeline. This allows me to write computation on collections in the form of a pipeline of familiar operations (eg filter, map, reduce). More and more language environments now have the language features and collection APIs to support pipelines, but since they have been limited in use for so long, more people are familiar with loops. In this article (which I'm releasing in installments) I'll take some loops and show how I'd refactor them into collection pipelines.