Spreadsheet

a tool for

• building/managing simple tables of Structured Data

• chaining together lots of calculations

http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/tutorials/spreadsheet-addiction/

an interface for Acceptance Test-s? (cf Fit Nesse)

Python libraries for interfacing with them: Copy Text and others https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628198&utm_term=comment

• gspread interfaces with GoogleApps https://github.com/burnash/gspread
• xlwings lets you replace VBA with Python in MsExcel (and GoogleSheets) http://xlwings.org/

Block Spring http://www.wired.com/2015/07/blockspring/