why Unix?

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
> > 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.

You may need some Python, Walter. You can do that with a small enough script, and then it works equally on Win and Linux.

Bye,
bearophile