I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a bad idea either. You might not be able to reasonably support all features Excel has but you could still provide some value with a subset.<p>I think this could be quite useful not so much when you&#x27;re starting something from scratch necessarily but maybe you already have spreadsheets that implement some algorithm. In these cases having a compiler translate the spreadsheet would probably make more sense than having a human do it.