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Spreadsheets are a very good model, and they have tremendous potential (which has been fully utilized) due to their "visual programming" aspect, but the excel formula language, array formulas and VBA are not the best places to ramp up to when things get more complex and advanced. There's quite a bit of horror stories of Excel gone wrong [1]

I've been positively suprised that Microsoft seems to have started to finally improve this situation with things like XLOOKUP and increasing Python support in Excel.

Disclaimer: I've published in a group doing research on Spreadsheet improvements, this is the professor's publication history [2]

[1] http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm [2] https://www.felienne.com/publications




I like Spreadsheets the interface, not the database. I splitting that is where the opportunity is.

Thanks for the link to your publication, will give it a read.




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