You're either trolling, or you've completely missed the point. This is not an article about trivial word counting. This an article about mathematical abstracti

You're either trolling, or you've completely missed the point. This is not an article about trivial word counting. This an article about mathematical abstractions behind all batch data processing (unix pipes included). Just because we already know how to count small numbers of words in bash doesn't mean we can't learn anything from this article.