I don’t think most people have issues with programming because of syntax. It’s the lack of visual feedback that’s making things so difficult. Click on one of those cells and it’s color coding which cells make up that formula. Sum(everything in this box) is really easy to get where a foreach loop doing the exact same thing is more abstract.
People just kind of default to {do some magic} on [various things] -> (Some result that looks about like I was expecting).
What’s really interesting is Spreadsheets tend to have bugs where the result is incorrect but reasonably close to reality. Aka 38 vs 35 not Null Pointer Exception, this makes them in many ways seductively dangerous in a this looks close therefore it must be easy to fix way.
People just kind of default to {do some magic} on [various things] -> (Some result that looks about like I was expecting).
What’s really interesting is Spreadsheets tend to have bugs where the result is incorrect but reasonably close to reality. Aka 38 vs 35 not Null Pointer Exception, this makes them in many ways seductively dangerous in a this looks close therefore it must be easy to fix way.