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What most techies don't get about Excel is that people wouldn't build their businesses around it if it weren't a really powerful abstraction. Sure, a dev could
by ijustlovemath 4y ago
What most techies don't get about Excel is that people wouldn't build their businesses around it if it weren't a really powerful abstraction. Sure, a dev could set up a CRUD app, but then you need a dev, which is far outside the budget of most SMBs. Rather than Excel being the root of all evil, we should view it as the empowerment tool that it really is!
- twoodfin 4y agoWhen SPJ of Haskell fame was working for Microsoft, he put together a fantastic presentation on this theme: https://www.lambdadays.org/static/upload/media/161673641592992lambdadaysfeb21corrected.pdf https://www.lambdadays.org/static/upload/media/1616736415929...