I'm actually quite a fan of VBA (and VB6). It's incredibly fast to get something working out of the door, and after all, that is what pays the bills. I built a

I'm actually quite a fan of VBA (and VB6). It's incredibly fast to get something working out of the door, and after all, that is what pays the bills. I built an entire timesheet data collection system for a large organisation in 2000 using Excel+VBA in Office 2000. It wrote data in CSV format onto a network share which was pumped into their AS400. It scaled quite happily across 45000 (!) global users...