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> everything that is today a spreadsheet was a program some programmer had to write That is incorrect, sir. First, because many problems were designed to fit
by alganet 1y ago
> everything that is today a spreadsheet was a program some programmer had to write
That is incorrect, sir.
First, because many problems were designed to fit into spreadsheets (human systems designed around a convenient tool). It is much more likely that several spreadsheets were _paper_ before, not custom written programs. For a lot of cases, that paper work was adapted directly to spreadsheets, no one did a custom program intermediate.
Second, because many problems we have today could be solved by simple spreadsheets, but they often aren't. Instead, people choose to hire developers instead, for a variety of reasons.
- tptacek 1y agoI'm not sure we're really disagreeing about anything here. If you think spreadsheets didn't displace any programmers at all, that's contrary to my intuition, but not necessarily wrong --- especially because of the explosion of extrinsic demand for computer programming.
- alganet 1y agoYou say spreadsheet software replace programmer. I say spreadsheet software replace paper. That's the disagreement. You have intuition, I have sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#Paper_spreadsheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#Paper_spreadsheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#Electronic_spreadsheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#Electronic_spreads...