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Some of those monstrous spreadsheets are extremely valuable, but wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Excel.

Reminds me of gunpowder - very powerful, very dangerous and very useful.

Yeah, Excel is crazy flexible so it's no wonder that where ever there isn't a designated application for something, people fall back to Excel. I think it's a good platform to introduce dev tools in, all those small ad-hoc use cases can be served much better with some serious dev tools at hand.

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