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Re:Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application by SonOfLilit on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:41AM (#19970557)
Because spreadsheets are at the sweet spot of most complicated programming language that non-technologists can reasonably be expected to learn on their own.

Because you should have a reeeealy good justification to write a single line of code for something that can be done in Excel much cheaper, and mostly you don't.

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Re:Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application by SonOfLilit on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:45AM (#19970592)
I guess what I'm trying to say is: it's a feature, not a bug, and it's really important for entrepreneurs to understand this because otherwise they might think they have no competition where their competition is with the most useful piece of software humanity ever produced.
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