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The screenshot of the excel spreadsheet with the title "Important Looking Business Document" is borderline condescending. If you're going to actually use a C++ library to generate an excel spreadsheet, it BETTER BE fucking IMPORTANT or else what is the point?

Well I definitely wasn't going for condescending with that image, I was trying to come from more of a fun place to entice the bored business programmer looking for a solution to their excel problems. Obviously there's a lot less business programmers using C++ as opposed to Java and .NET, so I do plan to develop wrappers for those eventually. Currently tho, I am looking to be the most feature complete C++ library before I try to expand too far.

I'll think more about the screenshot, thanks for the heads up.

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