Excerpt from Object Lens, Vol. 6: A Spreadsheet for Cooperative Work
We will focus here on a more Specific property of spreadsheet program: They make a restricted, but nevertheless very flexible and useful, set ofcomputational capabilities extremely easy to use. It is, of course, possible to do any computation a spreadsheet can do in a general purpose programming language. But because doing these things with a spreadsheet program is so much more convenient.
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