I don't think you can address the downsides without completely redesigning Excel. There were some attempts to add loops, IFs and so on to the assembly language.

I don't think you can address the downsides without completely redesigning Excel. There were some attempts to add loops, IFs and so on to the assembly language. Somehow this approach could not compete with Java: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Support_for_structured_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Support_for_...