I'm sick of Excel. Every time I try and do something a little bit fancy, I have to learn how to do things the special Microsoft way.

I want a spreadsheet program I can program in Perl, or Python, or C, or whatever.

Right now I'm envisioning an open source program, let's call it MetaCalculate for now.

MetaCalculate would provide a basic spreadsheet framework to any programming language over some API. It would handle whatever specialized logic is specific to spreadsheets and let you do all the rest in your programming language of choice.

I want to be able to use an RSS library to fetch prices off of New Egg and put them into a spreadsheet for me. I want to be able to use printf(3) to format my cells. I want to be able to write my own bankers rounding function. I want to be able to use DBI to access databases.

Maybe this will turn into a DevHouse project.