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This brings me back to when I worked on Excel. The formatting structs (and most cell related ones) are so tightly packed and the byte code VM for the formulas i
by strongpigeon 4y ago
This brings me back to when I worked on Excel. The formatting structs (and most cell related ones) are so tightly packed and the byte code VM for the formulas is pretty neat.
I wish I could have met duanec, that guy wrote probably 10% of the code for Excel. Sadly he had retired 2 years before I started working on Excel.
Fun fact: when they were about to ship Excel 1.0, they didn’t know what to name it then so they had an internal poll. The name that garnered the most votes was “Mr Spreadsheet”. Needless to say, marketing vetoed it.
- otter-rock 4y agoSpreadsheet McSpreadsheetface
- bachmeier 4y ago> Needless to say, marketing vetoed it. Like HR, they take the fun out of everything.
- willhinsa 4y ago“That name again, is Mr. P̶l̶o̶w̶ Spreadsheet.”
- layer8 4y agoIf anything, it should have been Ms Spreadsheet.
- ge96 4y agoSpready Freddy A:O
- mikewarot 4y agoThey should have named it "NOT A DATABASE!!!"
- ok_dad 4y ago> The name that garnered the most votes was “Mr Spreadsheet”. Needless to say, marketing vetoed it. The older I get the more I hate people who work in marketing :(
- pstuart 4y agoObligatory Bill Hicks bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAAVLcMzr4
- Narretz 4y agoWhat did duanec do after Excel?
- sulam 4y agoI was able to find this without much googling: https://www.geekwire.com/2013/duane-campbell/ https://www.geekwire.com/2013/duane-campbell/
- Centigonal 4y ago♫ Mr. Spreadsheet, spread me a sheet ♫ ♫ Make it a big one, with columns all neat ♫ ♫ Give it two tabs, and pivot tables ♫ ♫ And column headers I can use as chart labels ♫
- vba 4y agoI also worked on Excel and in the calc code. XOpers, LBLs… it’s all coming back. We never figured out what the Hungarian prefixes kml and ptg stood for. There was a rumor kml might be the initials of duanec’s girlfriend Recalc or die