[PRL] The Importance of Excel

[Jesse A. Tov]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:26 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:

> As one comment on HN indirectly alluded to, there may not be any
> low-hanging fruit here: the fragility of Excel is why people use it. You
> can get the job done quickly, and doing a better job--even a marginally
> better job--requires time and development resources that people don't
> choose to allocate to the problems.
>

Sounds familiar.

“. . . But when [spreadsheets] written in [Excel] grow into large programs,
they may also become difficult to maintain. To improve the maintainability
of programs in [Excel], I propose porting portions into [?] languages.”

Jesse
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