My brother teaches Decision Support Systems using Excel+VBA at the university because he found that students became productive fastest with it. Spreadsheet mode

My brother teaches Decision Support Systems using Excel+VBA at the university because he found that students became productive fastest with it. Spreadsheet model introduced by VisiCalc is probably one of the greatest paradigms introduced in computing making certain programming scenarios extremely accessible. I wish we had more innovations on par with spreadsheets down the road but I don't think we did.