[ziml77]

That page is a joke right? That last alternative really makes it seem that way. If you want simplicity, why would you use sed to get the first lines of a file? Head is a much simpler program that has a single job while sed has its own text transformation language.

[api]

I totally agree, but I think today’s systems have more incidental than essential complexity.

The sentiment behind that list is okay but it does demonstrate a lot of ignorance The biggest joke is simple tables or file systems as a SQL alternative. If you do that for anything that needs more than just a map you will eventually end up with a badly implemented buggy slow relational database.