I wasn't surprised, given the domain. Plan 9 fanboys tend to have a very simplistic view of the world and think that "KISS", "do one thing well" and "just pipe

I wasn't surprised, given the domain. Plan 9 fanboys tend to have a very simplistic view of the world and think that "KISS", "do one thing well" and "just pipe stuff" is the universal solution to all problems. If the alternative look like a (t/n)roff file, I'd gladly take XML, though.