You are using very strong words to describe a very weak signal, and it comes out sounding like noise. Self-respecting programmers make lots of good and bad dec

You are using very strong words to describe a very weak signal, and it comes out sounding like noise. Self-respecting programmers make lots of good and bad decisions, and trying to exclude someone from that category because they went down a particular path is divisive and unproductive. If you had said, "I don't see why one would opt to use a service rather than write a script for this very simple task," you might've gotten an interesting answer pointing out something you missed. No self respecting programmer would throw away the chance to learn a valuable lesson to grandstand. (Edit: Though I've totally made that mistake before.)