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		bwanab on Nov 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine > > Any sufficiently complicated startup or young company contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of 10% of Excel. Let's give Philip Greenspun due credit for this phrase. I'm going to guess there's at least one generation who isn't familiar with it.

nhatcher on Nov 11, 2024 [–]

I was tired when I wrote that. I think I just assumed everyone would get that reference

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