Comment by _xsbz

Yeah programming definitely offers most flexibility if you have that skillset. I'm particularly interested in your 'last 20% is like going to the moon' analogy for special-purpose tools or even Excel/Bash. Do you have any examples off the top of your head of the kinds of transformation or validation challenges that you find fall into that really difficult 20%, where only a 'real programming language' can effectively get the job done?