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This is so true tho
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Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because "that's how."
Huh... You know what that makes more sense than anything else I've come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.
Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?