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you can do things in your examples that would require lots of tedious configuration (say of a mysql server) that you really don't want to force on your readers.

They get to see the a couple of runs of your scripts without having to install everything, configure mysql and then find out your modules' not as cool as they thought.

And, you don't have to re-run the scripts and copy/paste their output every time you change them