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0 pointsModernMech9y ago0 comments

Not everyone who writes is necessarily a writer. In the same vein, not everyone who wants to tell a computer what to do wants to be a programmer.

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logicallee9y ago

but when people say "that non-programmers can use" they don't mean "that people whose job title isn't 'programmer' can use." They mean "that people who can't program can use." it's a bit confusing and I suppose I could be wrong. (They could mean "people whose job title isn't 'programmer.'")

MichaelBurge9y ago

Somebody who makes a spreadsheet is telling a computer what to do. Are advanced users of Excel programmers?

Businesses occasionally express the business rules in the form of spreadsheets to be directly implemented into code.

Spreadsheets even double as unit tests.

falcor849y ago

> Are advanced users of Excel programmers? Yes.

Edit: here's a previous discussion about a Turing Machine in excel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416631

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