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Excel is sticky partly because users seamlessly transition from using it as a calculator to using it as a programming language. And it's an interesting language paradigm—basically an IDE whose default interface is a debugger showing you the inputs to your functions and their outputs, while hiding the functions themselves. That might be the gentlest way to introduce someone to programming: by having a coding interface that's focused on showing you potentially buggy outputs rather than the logic that produced them.