why Unix?

[Alexander Pánek]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

I suppose you know all the tools you need for that: a POSIX shell, wget, 
sed, maybe sort, some xargs and pipes!