[PRL] The Importance of Excel

[Matthias Felleisen]

Now write a grant proposal. 

On Feb 14, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Jesse A. Tov wrote:

> 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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