> There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet
There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet, and yet people have written them regardless.
In college, one course I took got groups of students to participate in a networked, multi-user business simulation that was written in Excel.
It was slow as hell, and Excel probably wasn't the best tool for the job, but it was probably just what the domain experts who created it were familiar with. Despite its lack of performance, it did its job admirably.
I think many people would be absolutely shocked at the size and scope of applications written in Excel using VBA. So in that respect, perhaps a supercharged spreadsheet would result in many more feasible applications than most of us, as developers, would first imagine.
There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet, and yet people have written them regardless.
In college, one course I took got groups of students to participate in a networked, multi-user business simulation that was written in Excel.
It was slow as hell, and Excel probably wasn't the best tool for the job, but it was probably just what the domain experts who created it were familiar with. Despite its lack of performance, it did its job admirably.
I think many people would be absolutely shocked at the size and scope of applications written in Excel using VBA. So in that respect, perhaps a supercharged spreadsheet would result in many more feasible applications than most of us, as developers, would first imagine.