[flukus]

For things excel is used for I find a few unix tools and piping between them can achieve a similar affect yet still be maintainable, debuggable and repeatable. In lieu of convincing the masses to work this way, I wonder if visual tools could take the best parts? Instead of updating cells on sheets (global variables), have a UI that allows users to break down it down into a series of steps with an input and an output, much like a makefile. Then it would be possible to step through the script, inspect the input and output for each step and view the final result.