Yup. Totally agree with OP. Early on in my career I had to generate on the fly reports for hundreds of GB of data and all it needed was to throw some *NIX comma

Yup. Totally agree with OP. Early on in my career I had to generate on the fly reports for hundreds of GB of data and all it needed was to throw some *NIX commands around and eventually piping them to awk to do the final bit and it was blazing fast. These days, these are called big data. No it isn't...