Excel VBA has libraries, they're just called references. It lacks an exception library, but it does have a similar style of attempt-fail-compensate (though you'

Excel VBA has libraries, they're just called references. It lacks an exception library, but it does have a similar style of attempt-fail-compensate (though you've got to put up with ugly labels). Personally I'd use IPython Notebook over it, but that's not always the reasonable choice.