Piping together the other programs is certainly practical and efficient...but spending a whole ton of time writing complex code is fun. I tend to take the pract

Piping together the other programs is certainly practical and efficient...but spending a whole ton of time writing complex code is fun. I tend to take the practical route at work, an the impractical route when I'm writing something for fun. In my perfect world, I'd be writing something for which there are no existing libraries to lean on.