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by vanderZwan 2881 days ago
> There isn't good version control for Excel. Linting is mediocre. And the language itself sucks, because the programmers who work on it don't think spreadsheets are programming, and don't think the people using spreadsheets are programmers.

Since you're writing a spreasheet app, I presume you are familiar with Feliene's work on this topic?

http://www.felienne.com/publications

Also, you probably will find Edwards videos about his own experiments interesting:

https://vimeo.com/jonathoda

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> I presume

I'm not! Thank you!

I've been pretty heads-down writing my thing, but I'll be sure to set aside my evenings to go through both sites exhaustively, and probably try to get in contact with both to ask for feedback.

Also check out Flowsheets by Glen Chiacchieri: https://tinyletter.com/Flowsheets/letters/flowsheets-v2-and-...