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George,
Thank you for posing this question. It is really interesting to read all the
suggestions you receive. I wish you that you choose out of all what has been
mentioned the right one.
An other aspect which might be important for you: By selecting a popular
programming language you might have higher chance of finding ready available
source codes in the Internet.
If this aspect is not so important, I actually have yet an other proposition
for you. Do you remember Ashton Tate's Framework? May be you used it at work
until about 10 years ago. Yes, it is this spread sheed program which existed
before Excel. Framework had FRED as a programming language implemented,
which - to my understanding - was much more useful than VBA with Excel. At a
time I used it for a lot of number crunching. It also had either ready
available plot features or plots could be programmed. Framework had e.g. the
possibility to put a complete program (not just a formula) into one cell of
the spreadsheet. Unfortunately Framework "died" after Ashton Tate gave it
up. Not many know that in the meantime it is redux! Have a look here
http://www.framework.com/ A the time the program was well documented in a
printed manual (two folders) . I can imagine that one could even find copies
of them.
This new version is however not cheap. When I asked a few years ago the
price was somewhere around 400US$. That was to much for what I wanted it.
May be they changed the price in the meantime.
Marcel
