Excel is, by far, the most successful programming-for-the-masses environment eve...

jedharris · on Jan 31, 2015

Agreed (though "functional" is quite a stretch -- "dataflow" is accurate).

And how many people, given a spreadsheet, are willing to look into the formulas and tweak them?

nitrogen · on Jan 31, 2015

And how many people, given a spreadsheet, are willing to look into the formulas and tweak them?

Enough that speadsheets probably account for a trillion dollars worth of human productivity or more since their invention (just a wild guess).

jowiar · on Jan 31, 2015

In my experience, one or two orders of magnitude more than those who are willing to look at "code".

jedharris · on Jan 31, 2015

Probably. Maybe the same ratio applied to Hypertalk vs "real code" -- i.e. 5% for Hypertalk, 0.5% for "real code". We never tried to find out.