And as I grow older I get more and more convinced that Excel is overrated. I ask myself, WHY in Excel so popular? And I keep coming back to the same answer: bec

And as I grow older I get more and more convinced that Excel is overrated. I ask myself, WHY in Excel so popular? And I keep coming back to the same answer: because it's live. But we do have this concept in the programming community (see links 1 and 2) and it's not theoretical. When I teach Python I see people quickly understand everything that can be made live. Do this, create a variable, then create a function, then let them play with the variable and see how the output changes. This is also why SQL is so popular, because you "declare" it and forget it and you see the changes live. Don't get me wrong, I love Excel, but it has its problems and it definitely is not a solution to everything data. [1] PANE: http://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane/ http://joshuahhh.com/projects/pane/ [2] LIVE: https://2018.splashcon.org/track/live-2018-papers#event-overview https://2018.splashcon.org/track/live-2018-papers#event-over...