Excel makes a good user interface for quick scientific apps... it used and extended a fairly complex radiometric analysis program at NASA/JPL that was built in

Excel makes a good user interface for quick scientific apps... it used and extended a fairly complex radiometric analysis program at NASA/JPL that was built in Excel and used VB scripts for most of the calculations. I made the same app in both Matlab and Python/Qt and it took far more time in both of those than it did in Excel. Time is money...