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I agree wholeheartedly. Common wisdom states that 'spreadsheets don't scale' but I wonder if that is because we haven't built good enough tools to facilitate that. Imagine if developers developed in spreadsheets and as much effort went into creating new paradigms within them as has gone into programming language design.


See "Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...




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