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To an extent, yes, but surely there's no clear line between a small excel macros and monstrously complex excel macro systems that are dreadfully abusing the Turing-completeness of excel macros and should use a better tool. But the latter comes from people playing with the former. I think that as information tools become more sophisticated, they necessarily develop programming-esque characteristics.

Figuring out a way for that to happen naturally, intuitively, and broadly is a hard problem that seems like it would probably have huge rewards.



I think there exists the possibility that the complexity may force more people to learn ‘proper’ programming. However;

Given the current UI/UX research and trends, I'd hold it more likely – and certainly preferrable – that the hard work happens behind the scenes, and users can perform more and more complex tasks reasonably intuitively.




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