The beginning is silly: "Why do people keep using Excel to build giant, error-prone spreadsheets?" This could just as easily be: "Why do people keep using prog

The beginning is silly: "Why do people keep using Excel to build giant, error-prone spreadsheets?" This could just as easily be: "Why do people keep using programming languages to build giant, error-prone applications?" I can't even read the rest of it. Excel is so successful because it lowers the bar for creating applications. They might not be pretty, and they may have expensive bugs, but its like everything else in the world. I'd bet the amount of value Excel has created in the world far outweighs the consequences of any bugs in the worksheets.