Agreed. Although I should add that it's still great to call out to the standard Unix toolset when it's the easiest way to get something done. The accepted answe

Agreed. Although I should add that it's still great to call out to the standard Unix toolset when it's the easiest way to get something done. The accepted answer here illustrates that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4714043/what-is-the-best-way-to-sort-30gb-of-strings-with-a-computer-with-4gb-of-ram-usin http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4714043/what-is-the-best-...