[celticjames]

After reading your comment, I did some googling to find something that could convert an existing spreadsheet into code. I found a few commercial solutions that turn Excel into C++ or Java. I think the idea is that Excel becomes the prototyping tool for non-coders. That seems like a better idea than treating Excel as the final product. I feel like there's a new paradigm for both spreadsheets and programming in there somewhere but I need a bigger brain to see it.

[gruseom]

I suspect the reason those commercial solutions aren't very prominent is that they don't work very well. Spreadsheet compilation is a harder problem than it appears to be.

[greiskul]

Some sort of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming to the masses would be nice.