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You could innovate and make spreadsheet debugable, or allow comments.

The argument that users don’t want a way to know what the logic they’ve created does is taking the point of view the users are idiots and don’t know any better rather than the developers aren’t thinking about how people are to reason about problems. If anything it’s the fault of the developers for not thinking clearly about how problems are solved in general and are locked into thinking in terms of their computer’s existing poor approximations of reasoning.




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