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> We have no code for calculation. It is called Excel. By that metric, Python is "no-code" for practically everything: It's code, but it isn't called that beca
by msla 6y ago
> We have no code for calculation. It is called Excel.
By that metric, Python is "no-code" for practically everything: It's code, but it isn't called that because it isn't written by coders, it's written by people who write software to do their jobs, see? "Formulas" and "scripts" and, in a previous era, "macros" are what we call software written by people who are being paid to do something else.
- MattGaiser 6y agoExcel comes with most people's computers and they can do it all by clicking buttons and drag and drop. If you are someone who spends all day in VBA, you are at least a software engineer lite if not a software engineer. Doing a table of calculations in Python is much more difficult than doing it in Excel without programming knowledge.
- pessimizer 6y agoLearning the abstractions that Excel uses, how to write formulas, and where to click, drag, and drop is programming. Python is no harder if you spend as much time with it as the average Excel expert does in Excel.