[Gyrantula2]

I learned to code thanks to Excel.

One day I discovered "Record Macro". That was handy to automate some simple tasks. Then I discovered I could make a clickable button, that would activate one of my macros. That was great. Then I discovered I could double-click (iirc) the button and there, in front of my eyes, was the code. A whole world opened up to me.

I made gigantic programs. Thousands of lines of code. Horrific code. I didn't understand variables or arrays but I had cells and columns! Imagine that.

I became the automation guru at my job. God I hope those Excel files no longer exist. I would die of embarrassment. I built automation tools in my own time. In Excel, of course. Before long I was making enough to quit my day job. Thanks, Excel.