Reminds me a bit of "Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines"[0], except replacing C code with a bunch of stuff in The Cloud™.<p>The problem with Taco Bell Programming is that those "ingredients" need to be versatile enough to actually be useful enough to not warrant reinventing their wheels. Unfortunately, that usually translates into complexity, ever-growing manpages, etc. If you're only using 8 ingredients, it's pretty unlikely that any of those ingredients are going to stick to the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well.<p>Additionally, at some point the task does end up being complex enough or atypical enough to involve coding for different corner cases and such. The only thing I'd dread more than ten thousand lines of C is ten thousand lines of Bash.<p>[0]: <a href="http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html" rel="nofollow">http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html</a>