Szymon Kaliski

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Spreadsheet for End-User Programming Might be a Wrong Model

The vast majority of users have never even written a formula

https://twitter.com/ibdknox/status/1206244836795281410 ↗

Over the next two weeks we visited dozens of Excel customers, and did not see anyone using Excel to actually perform what you would call “calculations.” Almost all of them were using Excel because it was a convenient way to create a table.

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most people just used Excel to make lists. Suddenly we understood why Lotus Improv, which was this fancy futuristic spreadsheet that was going to make Excel obsolete, had failed completely: because it was great at calculations, but terrible at creating tables, and everyone was using Excel for tables, not calculations.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-different/ ↗

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230 words last tended to on 2021-07-09let me know what you think