> Is it bad I much prefer loops to reduce? No. That's the reason that we have multiple different tools at our disposal. :) My rule of thumb has always been to

> Is it bad I much prefer loops to reduce? No. That's the reason that we have multiple different tools at our disposal. :) My rule of thumb has always been to use the tool that I, myself, find more effective—not what others say would be the most effective in an ideal world where I know everything about every programming language in existence. That means that I've written a handful of shell-scripts in PHP, some CLI-tools in Ruby (that would probably run a lot faster in Go), and a couple of "API"s in Bash.