Once upon a time I was working with an engineer who loved sed and awk a bit too much. We had data stored in SharePoint that was retrievable via an RSS feed. Said engineer insisted on using curl to grab the feed and sed/awk to parse the HTML ...

I on the other hand suggested using libcurl (primarily for NTLM auth support) and parsing the RSS feed using libxml.

Which engineer do you think management decided supporting?

Hint: Reusability and maintainability were big requirements in this project.