On 3 Dec 2010, at 21:11, Michael Sparks wrote:
> Yes, go off and use Excel why don't you. (Yes, I do know what Lisp Macros are)
>
> Actually that's an interesting thought - there are many more hundreds if not
> thousands or hundreds of thousands of Excel macros written in the world, used
> by people and in use by people, solving real problems than there are lisp
> macros making people's lives easier. (Much as I hate excel, that's one hell
> of
> a fly in the ointment in the "macros" argument)
Gordon Guthrie from Hypernumbers - who are big erlang users, has a statistic
that 14% of all the world's transactions go through excel. Most of it with no
source code management other than a machete, ie. you break it we cut your hands
off...
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