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This debate about whether to use named-ranges in Excel formulas brings back some distant memories. I was on a team at Goldman Sachs that built Excel tools for the investment bankers and because of that we'd help out with the new banker Excel training held at the giant Chelsea Piers sports complex. Every year freshly minted MBA's would begin the training and immediately become aghast when the trainers told them to nev…
You put it in much better words than I could, thanks haha. Also, very cool experience at Goldman!
I wonder if there could be made some middleground language, visual enough to not being scary for spreadsheet people, and debuggable and readable enough to not become a mess when model becomes big. Jupyter comes to mind, but it looks like it didn't get any traction outside data science.