People have raised some great issues with Excel. For me, the biggest problem that I dealt with all the time when I worked on Wall Street was just the lack of o

People have raised some great issues with Excel. For me, the biggest problem that I dealt with all the time when I worked on Wall Street was just the lack of one, central place for all Excel "code" - to me, it makes it exceedingly difficult to understand a spreadsheet or debug it. The "smartest" use I've seen is essentially just using Excel to store the data and then converting the "code" to VB script. Of course, one can argue at that point you might as well have the data in SQL or other database as well.