But I am not dealing about specificialy interactive data manipulation, I am talking about data manipulation in general. I compare interactive data manipulation with programming as two ways to do data manipulation. So I compare interactivity with batch mode.

You have to realize something - applications are meant to be used interactively. Programming languages are meant to be used without interaction.

Once again I compare applications with programming as two ways to solve the same thing, the first one is interactive, the second one is batch mode. So it's all straw man here (and a bit rude in the wording I need to add).