Certain parties and useful code

I spent yesterday writing scripts in a language I barely know for a program that's a decade old. I enjoy the exercise and education, but dislike the time consumed at the low end of the leaning curve, when all I really want is just the finished script to be working.

Ran aground on something it seemed I couldn't do, but I know I can, because there's (almost) always a workaround.

Programming is purely mathematical, precise, as close to perfect as we get, hardware working and the lectricity stays on.

Small wonder certain parties cannot implement useful code.