The reason Excel is used by so many people is that it is normally the only tool that people have that they can program in!

@mmer depends what you mean by programming

@mmer indeed the gap between sum(a1:a20) and (sum coll) is pretty small

I am being serious, lots of banks etc, lock down machines so the only flexible tool with some capability of programming is excel, not ideal, but it does show that people like to be able to create programs. The witheve acceptance of this premise has some validity, however, getting those non programmers to move to traditional programming environments would be difficult. Interestingly the immediacy of excel is hard to beat

prehistoric people scratched pictures on the walls of their caves

I agree with you on immediacy of course … that’s what we should be all over

hopefully @sekao will have his runtime for Excel done soon

@mmer Indeed it is hard to beat, and I don’t see a reason to beat excel anyway. That’s why there are people trying different approaches instead of trying to beat Excel by making programming as accessible as Excel – like Eve . I’ve seen entire departments running and “programmed” in Excel sheets shared on network drives. In my past life, I even worked at software company where the bug tracking system was shared excel 🙂

Likewise and I’ve also ran excel on the server with Apache POI for bigly profit