Like others said in here people like and use Excel because it is a flexible, visual, programming language. We haven't got alternative solutions for all the peop

Like others said in here people like and use Excel because it is a flexible, visual, programming language. We haven't got alternative solutions for all the people who want to program like that. Instead more and more companies come up with very rigid, workflow based systems who actually haven't got the freedom Excel has. The only proper attempt in solving this problem has been made by people like Bret Victor but nothing commercialized at least as I am aware of. Accounting, finance and even data processing / analytics software companies still live in the Middle Ages in terms of user interactivity and flexibility which is why a lot of us resort to programming languages.