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Excel is for end users. Not every Microsoft customer speaks English.

• kqr 4y ago
  But you don't have to speak English to use sum() to sum values. You only have to know the language of Excel, in which sum() means adding things together. I never understood this argument. To use a function you have to look up its name anyway*, so what does it matter which language inspired the name? I wouldn't mind if sum() was known as hezrtsh() as long as it was consistently so, I could have a chance of learning it. ---- * I still sometimes struggle to remember if it's average() or mean() and whether it's count() or length() -- different programming environments use different names. So even as an English speaker, I have to look up the word for each specific programming environment.