Pipelining without pipes

GitHub has a library to syntax highlight code snippets called Linguist. It has an extensive list of languages and their characteristics (e.g., name, file extensions, color, etc.). I had some free time, so I came up with this silly question: what would be the average programming language color? Hacking it We can get this done with a few lines of Ruby: require "net/http" require "yaml" # Some helper