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This is the point that's going to get missed a lot. In the corporate world Excel is the proverbial hammer to nearly every use case involving data manipulation,
by jonnypickel 9y ago
This is the point that's going to get missed a lot. In the corporate world Excel is the proverbial hammer to nearly every use case involving data manipulation, regardless of how well suited it is for the task.
Edit: I just noticed that I'm the third person to reply to you and we all referenced hammers.
- pessimizer 9y agoI don't know that Excel was the wrong tool for this task. I'm not sure why the spreadsheets couldn't have been distributed and consumed automatically by an Excel application, or at least by helper applications that were fed by and/or into Excel sheets. An Excel spreadsheet is a good enough form; and I don't think replacing one with a webform or pdf form would be any better. edit: my favorite thing about using excel is that instead of spitting out an answer, you can spit out an Excel sheet that shows a lot of the work itself, therefore partially explaining the answer to the people that have to consume it. The product of your program can often be another program, giving the person receiving the report the opportunity to tweak or add new parameters to your output. Basically currying accounting calculations.