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At university, we were forbidden from using Excel, and only FORTRAN 77 was allowed. At the time, this seemed strange and anachronistic, but when you consider th
by madaxe_again 10y ago
At university, we were forbidden from using Excel, and only FORTRAN 77 was allowed. At the time, this seemed strange and anachronistic, but when you consider that it had been in use for 25 years at the time, and was a known quantity that didn't have strange and unknown bugs, it actually seems sensible in retrospect.
I do however recall being mightily annoyed that I was having to calculate ephemera in "arcane bullshit", so I can understand why many shortcut to excel.
Experience makes fools of our past selves.
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoA company I worked for banned Excel for analysis and made everyone use Ipython notebooks because the analysis was transparent and very easily repeatable.
- leaningtower 10y agoYou can share your Excel files and macros with other people too. Python notebooks are kind of cool but if you need something quickly to sift through the data to have an idea, Excel is an amazingly good tool for it