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by MichaelBurge 3576 days ago
Somebody who makes a spreadsheet is telling a computer what to do. Are advanced users of Excel programmers?

Businesses occasionally express the business rules in the form of spreadsheets to be directly implemented into code.

Spreadsheets even double as unit tests.

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> Are advanced users of Excel programmers? Yes.

Edit: here's a previous discussion about a Turing Machine in excel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416631