My title was “Program Manager.” I was supposed to come up with a solution to this problem. On June 17, 1991, I started working for Microsoft on the Excel team. The only thing that made it look reasonable was that it looked great compared to Lotus macros, which were nothing more than a sequence of keystrokes entered as a long string into a worksheet cell. It had advanced features like “Goto” but the labels were actually physically invisible. It was a severely dysfunctional programming language without variables (you had to store values in cells on a worksheet), without locals, without subroutine calls: in short it was almost completely unmaintainable. In the olden days, Excel had a very awkward programming language without a name.
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