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Spreadsheets provide a spatial mapping (cells) to represent data transformations over time. Users are more comfortable working w/ spatial paradigms, as humans h
by hcarvalhoalves 5y ago
Spreadsheets provide a spatial mapping (cells) to represent data transformations over time. Users are more comfortable working w/ spatial paradigms, as humans have a better sense of location in space than in time. Thinking in terms of "transformations over time" is difficult to reason about, specially in programming.
- dgudkov 5y agoThe point about spatial representation is spot on. The problem is that in Excel calculations tend to be presented as huge unreadable formulas with no intermediate steps. Thus the spatial representation actually only covers the first and the last step, but rarely something in between.