This article touches on the revulsion "programmers" have toward Excel. Deep down it's because many can't imagine writing a program in any way besides rigid, id

This article touches on the revulsion "programmers" have toward Excel. Deep down it's because many can't imagine writing a program in any way besides rigid, idiomatic OOP Excel is a pure functional declarative DSL w/ immutability. It has lambdas & you can build applications that are fully data driven, like an ECS These are already paradigms that the software industry is not open-minded about. And here the mediocre programmer is able to appeal to authority. If "non-technical" users like a bookkeeper can program with Excel, it must be dumber and less elegant than the PHP script I would have written, right? The best financial modellers are more productive FP devs than many "programmers" deriding Excel, but we've allowed ourselves to think that doesn't "count"