have spent the last 8 years working on 3 different office workflow SaaS products and can confirm. users have NO FUCKING IDEA what they need. they only know what they've used, which is mostly Excel, so they give all feedback in terms of Excel. https://twitter.com/Garudina/status/850489503483543552 …
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the value is that Excel exposes a limited subset of programming-like features to people who don't otherwise know how to program. that's better solved by developing better programming languages (or DSLs anyway) and IDEs for them.
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The value of Excel is that it shows every intermediate step of the calculation at all times, producing a faster OODA loop than any conventional programming language.
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I haven't checked in on it recently but http://lighttable.com/ is an attempt to create an IDE with those features that works with actually good programming languages.
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in the early 90s (right around when Spreadsheets were being heavily developed) there was a larger push in general to develop visual programming paradigms. it flatlined when the web became "the next big thing". time for a comeback maybe?
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did you see
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I have not. checking it out now, thanks for the tip :)
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I will also take a look
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