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Comment by nogajun | Hacker News Reader

Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.

Excel is not even Excel anymore. It’s different on Windows, Mac, web, mobile… And there’s different bugs across all them! My favorite ones have to do with regional defaults.

> Excel is not even Excell anymore.

?? LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult... )

or "Autocorrect errors in excel still creating genomics headaches" ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4 )

Guess time to bump things up to a higher order portable programming language. Python for excel anyone vs. go "R".

Excel, at least old versions, does run on Linux using Wine.

Then it may be possible to run Excel on Linux in Excel

I’d like to see bare-metal Excel.

I was going to say that first versions were technically that, but apparently Excel was never released for DOS, Excel 2.0 was already a Windows application, and 1.0 was only available on Mac.

Lotus 1-2-3 was available for DOS

It was actually a Windows application that shipped it's own runtime copy of Windows [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168173

> run Excel on Linux in Excel

This remind me of the top comment on Puter's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179):

"I am the author of the 'app' called Puter which loads up Puter inside Puter, which then loads up the Puter app again, which ..."

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