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by thanatropism 3990 days ago
This is a bit harder. An Excel spreadsheet has no self-evident order of evaluation -- the cell dependency graph can be arbitrarily complicated.

Of course, Excel itself (and other spreadsheet programs) already do "decompiling", but this works like an always-on loop that resolves the direct, algebraic dependencies but makes no distinction for business logic. This is probably true of most real decompilation tasks.