Well if you're using Python, you're following an imperative/oop paradigm which goes back to the sixties, so I don't know why you'd criticize Excel for using a d

Well if you're using Python, you're following an imperative/oop paradigm which goes back to the sixties, so I don't know why you'd criticize Excel for using a dataflow model. I can understand not wanting to use Excel because it's proprietary (but Libreoffice isn't) but I can can understand not wanting to deal with a lot of it's legacy cruft, but for the stuff that Excel does well, it does it a lot more quickly, more interactively, and more intuitively for most people than a similar solution in Python. In fact, one of the key benefits of an Excel solution is that you can see every step of your calculation which creates a degree of self documentation which you don't get with Python, for example.