> But 1-2-3 was killed by Excel because it lost the feature race. It's origins in assembly language gave it a significant disadvantage in this race. Yet the wi

> But 1-2-3 was killed by Excel because it lost the feature race. It's origins in assembly language gave it a significant disadvantage in this race. Yet the winner was written in C++ for many years, while the world was distracted with the less inefficient VB. Now some parts are .Net, but the crucial parts are still C++.