If you believe "Programmers are expensive", then you should do as much as you can do with a declarative data manipulation language (usually SQL, you can also co

If you believe "Programmers are expensive", then you should do as much as you can do with a declarative data manipulation language (usually SQL, you can also consider sequences of text manipulations tools using pipes) and leave that last 15-5% of high-value work to a more powerful but also verbose imperative lenguage (usually Python, but any). Asking for what you want is considerably faster than saying how you want it done.