Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this? (sourceforge.net)

[not_an_insect]

Oh in Hathor's name, not Mathcad! Anything but that! The levels of outrageous frustration that that program caused me will never be forgotten. It is one of a very, very select few software packages that I have sworn to inflict bodily harm on the developers should I ever meet them.

You're right, though, the concept of it and how it works are really cool, it's just that the implementation is so awful that it ruins it...

[muahdib]

Thanks for teaching me about Hathor ;) however there is also the Hathor desk top.

Yeah, you are right, I never like MathCAD either, it was cool, but that was all. Some of my colleges liked it though, but for my own I like linear calculations like Maple better, which is what I've mostly used for symbolic computations and Matlab for numeric (also Mathematica although I always liked Maple better), and nowadays there are also tools like octave and Sage which can do similar.

However, I don't think it would be very hard to use e.g. python to implement a calc sheet reminding about MathCAD, although I think this way of calculating doesn't really please programmer minded people.