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Re:Ask HN: Would Spreadsheets with Lisps be much more powerful? by Jtsummers on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:48PM (#27478277)
It does. And while I like SES, it doesn't scale terribly well (in contrast to proper spreadsheet software). I did have a nice little stock dashboard using Yahoo!'s API about a decade ago paired with my purchases and such. I also made a nice little tax calculator and a few other things, I found it very useful (and used emacs lisp) for those kinds of programs. But the kind of scale that I've often seen Excel used for in businesses were a poor fit for it. Plus, good luck convincing non-technical managers (here I mean all kinds including financial managers and such) to use Emacs as a daily use tool. It's happened before, but it's not an easy sell.

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