Problems with Excel

by joeld

23 thoughts
last posted Aug. 26, 2016, 2:18 p.m.

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Bentley’s/Stencila’s approach is novel in that it allows for writing tests, and for representing the sheet as plain text.

But its “code interface” is still not very good in my opinion.

  • Formulas still live in cells and can still be overwritten by accident
  • The text/code view of the sheet is basically spaghetti code by design — not easy to read or debug
created March 26, 2016, 4:49 p.m.

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