>>8 You should be ashamed of yourself. What's wrong with toy programs? What's wrong with writing an occasional toy program? And fuqin lastly, fuck off with your Xarn bullshyt.
>>11
It's not exactly trivial but if "glorified wget w/ SQLite backend" is very far from the "no big deal" end of your scale then you do have a serious problem.
>>14
That's the glorified part. Have you never had to accommodate an inconsistent piece of software before? Try getting hired. You'll have to deal with it almost every day. (Unless you luck out and manage to get tenure at the Ivory Tower.)
If you get paid to write code then /prog/scrape is not a big deal to you. This isn't an industrial scenario, it's a realistic one. cf. "If you work on a farm, 50lbs is not heavy to you." Note: farms predate the industrial era. (It's sad that I have to point this out.)