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Spreadsheets let you click any field and understand where it came from. Excel can be thought of as an amazing post-execution debugger where you can get a previo
by foobiekr 2y ago
Spreadsheets let you click any field and understand where it came from. Excel can be thought of as an amazing post-execution debugger where you can get a previous output and value for almost any piece of memory ("cell"). I would love a debugger that could do this post-execution for some output.
- ThrowawayR2 2y agoNot quite the same thing but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging comes close.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoIn this case even getting 99.99% of the way there is still practically worthless, as someone will be interacting with Excel millions of times throughout a career.
- foobiekr 2y agoIt's not even in the same ballpark. With excel, you are inspecting _the output_ for a specific run. There is no equivalent in modern programming.