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Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

278 points · 196 comments · luispa

lordnacho · 1790376004 · focus · HN ↗
Users might see it as a good thing to have yet another feature, but this sort of type-softness is why Excel is bad. In general having every feature is a bad thing, you need constraints to design things, to have idioms.
Making everything flexible is what allows you to make spaghetti that nobody understands.
1. spbaar · 1790379848 · focus · HN ↗
  Excel does not need to be as opinionated or portable as a programming language. This might actually be a lesser of two evils considering what type of user behavior it encourages. (I've heard a similar ethos behind certain design decisions of Go)
  1. Grombobulous · 1790382341 · focus · HN ↗
    The flexibility of Excel is a lot of its value. If it wasn’t flexible like this then how could it be so widespread as a general purpose business tool?
    Excel allows and embraces whatever mess you want to make.

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