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by galfarragem 1929 days ago
As an anecdote I used to use a spreadsheet to visually "assemble"[0] HTML code for a niche blog. Some cells would compute values to be used in other cells that would compose the final HTML code. Of course existent spreadsheets are way too rudimentary to use as an "Excel Code": cells don't act as a REPL for the language of your choice nor allow a "text view" with syntax highlighting.

[0] Maybe because I have a background in Architecture, I tend to look at code as I would look at a house plan.