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This brings me back to when I worked on Excel. The formatting structs (and most cell related ones) are so tightly packed and the byte code VM for the formulas is pretty neat.

I wish I could have met duanec, that guy wrote probably 10% of the code for Excel. Sadly he had retired 2 years before I started working on Excel.

Fun fact: when they were about to ship Excel 1.0, they didn’t know what to name it then so they had an internal poll. The name that garnered the most votes was “Mr Spreadsheet”. Needless to say, marketing vetoed it.



♫ Mr. Spreadsheet, spread me a sheet ♫

♫ Make it a big one, with columns all neat ♫

♫ Give it two tabs, and pivot tables ♫

♫ And column headers I can use as chart labels ♫


If anything, it should have been Ms Spreadsheet.


They should have named it "NOT A DATABASE!!!"


I really like Notion for databases


!DB


I also worked on Excel and in the calc code. XOpers, LBLs… it’s all coming back. We never figured out what the Hungarian prefixes kml and ptg stood for. There was a rumor kml might be the initials of duanec’s girlfriend

Recalc or die



I have heard it call that before by teammates but thought it was just a guess. Seems it’s official

Thanks for sharing :)


> Needless to say, marketing vetoed it.

Like HR, they take the fun out of everything.


Spready Freddy A:O


What did duanec do after Excel?


I was able to find this without much googling:

https://www.geekwire.com/2013/duane-campbell/


> The name that garnered the most votes was “Mr Spreadsheet”. Needless to say, marketing vetoed it.

The older I get the more I hate people who work in marketing :(



Spreadsheet McSpreadsheetface


“That name again, is Mr. P̶l̶o̶w̶ Spreadsheet.”




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