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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?



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).


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


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.




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