[dredmorbius]

Sadly, I recall those arguments against spreadsheet computation being made in the early 1990s. People simply won't learn.

Ray Panko, University of Hawaii.

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/

Goes back to 1993:

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/auditexp.htm

[TorKlingberg]

There is even a European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group: http://www.eusprig.org/