top | item 43100595 Ask HN: How it's like to work on products like MS Excel? 2 points| j1000 | 1 year ago Hi all, just being curious, how it's like to work on Excel? How big is your team? What's unusual is in this product? 3 comments order hn newest ano-ther|1 year ago Here is some from the ex program manager:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/19/two-stories/https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... Tepix|1 year ago s/How/What/ s/it's/is it/ Why Excel in particular? muddi900|1 year ago I am guessing Excel is popular but hated, has a lot of cruft that can't be cleaned up because there are mission critical spreadsheets depending on it.
ano-ther|1 year ago Here is some from the ex program manager:https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/19/two-stories/https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Tepix|1 year ago s/How/What/ s/it's/is it/ Why Excel in particular? muddi900|1 year ago I am guessing Excel is popular but hated, has a lot of cruft that can't be cleaned up because there are mission critical spreadsheets depending on it.
muddi900|1 year ago I am guessing Excel is popular but hated, has a lot of cruft that can't be cleaned up because there are mission critical spreadsheets depending on it.
ano-ther|1 year ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/19/two-stories/
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Tepix|1 year ago
muddi900|1 year ago