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I have to say, pretty neat. And I partly feel like I may need a shower after thinking that. I have no doubt that a product like this has a real need ... I use
by mdip 9y ago
I have to say, pretty neat. And I partly feel like I may need a shower after thinking that.
I have no doubt that a product like this has a real need ... I used to write software targetted at end-users for reducing first-level support at a huge company, and it never ceased to amaze me the kinds of unbelievably important things that Excel and Access were used to manage (on the order of processes that the failure of which would result in 7-figure problems). It would further amaze me to find out that many of the people working with these end-user created solutions to problems were had some really, durably, solid rocks between their ears, and yet were still able to navigate these tools with moderate success. Unfortunately, there's little chance that an average excel hacker is going to have much interest or ability to operate git, and the average git enthusiast is probably a lot like me -- a guy who goes out of his way to never launch Excel for any reason, ever.
The last time I was given a task in which the work product was demanded in Excel, I wrote an application to create the spreadsheet programmatically ... partly because it was the only way to do some of the "clean up" they were asking for[0] and partly because I am a smart-ass by nature.
I realize I'm a specific case and I probably have a much stronger allergy to Excel than most, and as I said, there's few large companies that don't have stupidly-complex processes that (also stupidly-)rely on Excel. I'm also a guy who bends git into just about every scenario I can find, so I love the idea of anything that makes it more useful. Kudos.
[0] I had to correlate output from several web services and the source was a spreadsheet had the values they responded with. I wrote an app to read the rows and apply edit-distance against them to correlate a few more than were possible using just excel tricks.