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Yeah excel produces hairballs so easily. From a coder perspective I've only seen excel workbooks that are bad or terrifying. On the other hand a ton of people
by jrott 6y ago
Yeah excel produces hairballs so easily. From a coder perspective I've only seen excel workbooks that are bad or terrifying.
On the other hand a ton of people that don't write software for a living and have no interest in code manage to produce things that help them do their job and automate a ton of tedious stuff.
- lordnacho 6y agoMost people don't write novels or poetry for a living either, but we still need some grasp of basic writing skills like grammar and structuring. We're already moving towards a future where a lot of people have coding as part of their job, and we should expect them to know a few things.
- jrott 6y agoOh I totally agree. It’s just worth acknowledging where most bad excel spreadsheets come from or at least it gives me more patience with them.
- dgb23 6y ago> From a coder perspective I've only seen excel workbooks that are bad or terrifying. I think this might be a type of bias: The Excel sheets I usually look at as a programmer are from customers who want me to write an application for them. Typically because the conventional means (Excel sheets, directory structures, emails etc.) become unmaintainable. So we end up seeing the stuff that is bad for w/e reason. Often a combination of complexity, inconsistency, usability and sheer mass.