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It's funny you mention Excel. Without actually meaning to, that's where I started programming. I ended up building all of my reports using MVC, before I even k
by danilocampos 16y ago
It's funny you mention Excel. Without actually meaning to, that's where I started programming.
I ended up building all of my reports using MVC, before I even knew what a design pattern was.
- jacquesm 16y agoI know several people that started their programming career in excel spreadsheets, it's actually quite scary how far they got with their stuff before they ran in to the limits of excel. The natural follow up to that was visual basic and then more and more 'mature' environments. One of them got so successful with his VB program formerly spreadsheet that he ended up making a very impressive fortune with it.
- ojbyrne 16y agoOne of my earliest jobs involved Lotus macros. When I got to port them to VBA-Excel it was a joyful thing.
- nickpinkston 16y agoHaha - yea me too. I've actually wanted a gEdit plug-in to text highlight for huge cells. I actually love programming in Scheme because the parenthesis are so like Excel's sort-of functional style.
- eru 16y agoExcel is the world's most popular functional programming language. To bad it's only of zeroth order.