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> Personally, I think there's a massive economic explosion waiting to happen in making programming tools more accessible to average people

It's called Excel.



A pure functional reactive programming environment with built in schemaless eventually consistent (with onedrive!) data store. Excel ain't bad.


Yes, sadly the state of the art in End User Programming hasn't advanced much since the invention of the spreadsheet. Spreadsheets will stay with us, but I don't believe they are the final form of programming.

http://www.miramontes.com/writing/spreadsheet-eup/ (1990)




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