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Re:Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code by zarzavat on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:00PM (#30972001)
Truly Excel could be improved in a vast number of ways. But would anyone use it? Excel is a kind of product that is perfectly understandable to the average business person.

The more complicated you make it, the more it becomes like real software development. And that is a skill that most people don’t possess.

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Re:Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code by rco8786 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @07:28AM (#30976153)
> The more complicated you make it

Excel is ridiculously complicated. I think you're vastly underestimating the ability of these "average business people" because they don't know how "real software development" works.

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