why Unix?

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> It took me a couple of minutes to write under her eyes a script that 
> downloaded HTML, scraped the code for links, followed those of interest, 
> and output a concatenation of all pages she was interested in, with 
> details highlighted, that was loadable back in the browser. I'd show her 
> one iteration, get feedback, and get the next iteration within seconds. 
> All without "coding" in any sense as regularly understood by Windows 
> programmers.

I have no idea how to do that under unix. I obviously have not learned 
anywhere near enough about it.