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I agree that mission critical data needs to get out of it and into a centralized system, but I still feel Excel is an incredible tool in any business. You woul
by sliverstorm 9y ago
I agree that mission critical data needs to get out of it and into a centralized system, but I still feel Excel is an incredible tool in any business.
You would have thought this would be obvious- it seems analogous to perl/python or other such Swiss army knife tools we use for quick one-off solutions that occasionally get pressed into permanent formal use where they shouldn't.
- kazagistar 9y agoPython (and probably Perl too) work fine for permanent formal use as long as they are engineered as such. I have seen clear, well structured permanent code bases in python. The problem is just that people like coding one off prototypes in python, and those end up in prod; it's just as bad as when Java prototypes end up in prod, but who actually wants to write prototypes in Java, if given the choice?
- sliverstorm 9y agoCouldn't you argue the same thing about excel? It does not lend itself to well engineered permanent formal use, but you certainly could build a robust system with it.