if it only needs to work on his PC then its not tok bad. these utils are often full of crap because they need to work on everyones pc with wacky locales and filesystems and all sortsof crap this guy wont run into.

its always the case if ud implmenet everything just for your case you can skip most edge cases and software can be much more lean.

granted his claim is maybe a bit broadly worded regardin this point ofcourse.