That's literally the point of the book. Showing how you can use 500 lines of codes to do a whole lot of things, if you know what you're doing and use the approp

That's literally the point of the book. Showing how you can use 500 lines of codes to do a whole lot of things, if you know what you're doing and use the appropriate language, in a way that others can still understand what's going on. Pick the tool based on your requirements, not the other way around =)