yeah, I mean it doesn't do everything perfectly, but it's "good
   enough" for daily use. Once a system is prototyped in Excel and
   functional, it's at THAT point it can be taken and migrated over
   to a more stable system like a database or sent over to C++
   programmers to make something fancy.

   But I'm not a perfectionist; I just want to get from A --> B
   most of the time, so I use whatever tools I have at hand that
   will best accomplish the task.

   You should see how many different program I use when I make
   little videos and things. I must use 12-15 different programs,
   depending on the input, depending on what I want to do with it,
   depending on the output. I use the strongest tool for the job
   that requires the least amount of effort.

   I've rarely found a single tool that does everything, although
   defaulting to ASCII text works for most things. [most ppl don't
   think of ASCII as a tool, but I do. It's a great universal
   language for data]

   I'd move videos and sounds over to ASCII if I had the disk space
   honestly, but computers *still* need to compress _everything_.
   Someday they might not have to but for now, I make do with weird
   compression algorithms, proprietary formats and whatever.