Excel succeeds at its job so thoroughly that I think people fail to realize (or cope with the realization) that spreadsheets are probably the most successful de

Excel succeeds at its job so thoroughly that I think people fail to realize (or cope with the realization) that spreadsheets are probably the most successful democratized programming environment we have. It may not have been intentional, but the 2D grid representation for data interlaced with an acyclic dependency graph is by far superior to any alternative representation, visual or otherwise, I can think of for either of those concepts. Users don't even think about graphs or data, often they don't even understand those terms. Due to this IMHO spreadsheets are pretty much peak computer science