No, I am not even tho ugh I disagree that it's an anti-pattern. I write a lot of small programs that are meant to deal with large amounts of data, but data that

No, I am not even tho ugh I disagree that it's an anti-pattern. I write a lot of small programs that are meant to deal with large amounts of data, but data that is different enough to require a separate 100 line program. The difference of thinking about these things is the difference between 20 minutes and 2 minutes for the program's run-time.