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Tai Kedzierski

Yeah, doing pipes is a nightmare in anything other than shells, and the reason why I still love using shell scripts - chaining tools.

But there's a lot of logic that can often be sub-moduled out to other languages to make a cohesive whole. Some systems people don't like the idea of a program not being self-contained in a single file and you end up with 2000+ lines of sub-optimal code at best, more often than not downright horrendous though... take a peek at the install scripts of some of your favorite software to see what I mean...