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The other major tool I'd put up there with Smalltalk and Hypercard is Excel, at least when it comes to automation of real-world business problems. To an extent,
by jowiar 11y ago
The other major tool I'd put up there with Smalltalk and Hypercard is Excel, at least when it comes to automation of real-world business problems. To an extent, it made a large enough set of problems easy enough to solve that tools have stagnated as a result.
- stillsut 11y agoUnder-appreciated aspect of excel: You store the data on a spreadsheet. A dev: hmm...Should it be Mongo-esque NoSQL, in-memory sqlite, MySQL vs SQLServer? But Postgres has most open source momentum...let's do pros v cons. Excel dude: Put the data in the grid. Then move on to what you're trying to do with it.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoI think you mean the data is displayed in a spreadsheet.
- bitwize 11y agoUnix dude: Fuck it! I'll spit out the data in text/csv and grovel through it with awk/perl.