Thoughts writing a Google App script

Recently a friend of mine asked for a simple program that would
correlate some data drawn from a couple of online services. I decided the
best way to do this for him would be to use a google spreadsheet as the
host, putting the code into the spreadsheet's script area. I'm no expert
in Google App Script, but the exercise led to a few observations, which I
feel compelled to share.

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