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Excel is, by far, the most successful programming-for-the-masses environment ever created. I'm not talking about VBA, either -- Just the sheet and formulas are
by jowiar 12y ago
Excel is, by far, the most successful programming-for-the-masses environment ever created. I'm not talking about VBA, either -- Just the sheet and formulas are a brilliantly accessible functional programming environment.
- jedharris 12y agoAgreed (though "functional" is quite a stretch -- "dataflow" is accurate). And how many people, given a spreadsheet, are willing to look into the formulas and tweak them?
- nitrogen 12y agoAnd how many people, given a spreadsheet, are willing to look into the formulas and tweak them? Enough that speadsheets probably account for a trillion dollars worth of human productivity or more since their invention (just a wild guess).
- jowiar 12y agoIn my experience, one or two orders of magnitude more than those who are willing to look at "code".
- jedharris 12y agoProbably. Maybe the same ratio applied to Hypertalk vs "real code" -- i.e. 5% for Hypertalk, 0.5% for "real code". We never tried to find out.