This is a great thread, thanks. Familiarity is a powerful thing. It helps explain why excel remains the most widely used “programming language” in enterprise.

This is a great thread, thanks. Familiarity is a powerful thing. It helps explain why excel remains the most widely used “programming language” in enterprise. Part of it is habits, which are not easy to change. And the fact that when they are changed, it’s often incrementally, by substituting them with something similar enough. Thanks for the reminder of the amazing things that are out there, but just haven’t cracked the mainstream. I think about it a lot with software from the 90s. Things like HyperCard. Stuff that, despite lower processor rates and memory, seemed MORE sophisticated than a lot of what’s standard today.