Otter's Journal: Using Excel as an IDE

This is even more insane than the guy who implemented Pac-Man in Excel: They can't force me to use Java

The data structures, validation and data tranformations are described in an excel spreadsheet (name, type, field size/# chars, range, enum, etc), which is exported to several xml docs which are sliced and diced through several passes of xslt to produce a system comprised ENTIRELY of generated code, from main() to exit(). Naturally, the generated code has zero comments. You want an explanation? Read the text in the spreadsheet!

misread the subject

[The Fun Guy]

I read that as "Excel as an IED", and I thought, "Yeah, I've had it explode on me a few times, too."