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    15 years and you did not encounter a single guy working on spreadsheet were you working in a paper based office Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 9:34
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    Excel is the most popular declarative programming language. For this only, if nothing else, it should be revered. Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 10:23
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    You need to go hang-out in the accounting department. Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 13:12
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    excel would be very useful if you know how to use it accordingly. Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 13:12
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    @SK-logic: Actually, I'd be willing to bet that Excel is the most popular programming language. Period. ECMAScript may have the edge in terms of deployed execution engines and Java in terms of lines of code, but Excel clearly leads in the number of programmers. Most of whom never were trained as programmers. Many of whom aren't even aware that they are programming at all. (Which also disproves the myth that functional programming is hard to learn: if secretaries can program in a functional language, without even having learned to program, surely a programmer can figure it out, too?) Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 14:39