"I won’t lie, this looks outrageous even to me. But not to my Dad, who is a civil engineer and doesn’t speak a word of English. He is dangerously fluent in Exce

"I won’t lie, this looks outrageous even to me. But not to my Dad, who is a civil engineer and doesn’t speak a word of English. He is dangerously fluent in Excel’s formulas, which he uses extensively in those hundred-sheet documents bristling with filters, conditionals, and pivot tables. Then the roads and bridges are getting built based on those calculations." A cheer or two for the humble spreadsheet - the longest lasting and most widely used end-user 'programming' metaphor I've heard of, despite the estimated 5% error rate in formulas. A git for spreadsheets would be ace!