Why use a programming language versus using a spreadsheet?

When you want to do something:

• over and over again and/or
• systematically

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So why use a programming language instead of a spreadsheet?  Well, the answer is when you want to do something over and over again or would you want to do it very systematically - it's much easier doing this with the programming language than manually having to click and poke again and again and again and again and then realize "Oop! I have to do it another data set all again tomorrow".