Computational Models of Spreadsheet Development: Basis for Educational Approaches — mentioned by lliwta

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:30:06 GMT

I'm familiar with this characterization. I just don't think it's representative of realistic spreadsheet programming (edit: or many existing implementations). Here's an excellent quote from the conclusion of a paper on the topic stating exactly this viewpoint (and they aren't even referring to macros afaict) [1]: Current spreadsheet implementations do not strictly follow any of the established conceptual models. They rather follow a teleological approach of “what the user probably intends to do”. But phrases containing the word “probably” are problematic as they do not hold for all…

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Computational Models of Spreadsheet Development: Basis for Educational Approaches — mentioned by lliwta