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Good points Partly I think the Excel bit is news because Excel (and mistakes made with Excel) is easily relatable to people. But bugs always come up and most o
by codeulike 6y ago
Good points
Partly I think the Excel bit is news because Excel (and mistakes made with Excel) is easily relatable to people. But bugs always come up and most other bugs are just as stupid. If it had been an off-by-one loop error in some C code somewhere it would be just as dumb but you'd get none of the facepalm memes all over Twitter.
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoOff by one errors are all alike; every excel error is an error in its own way.
- codeulike 6y agoNot when it mixes up US and UK date formats when you import a CSV. Not when it turns phone numbers into integers and strips off the leading zero.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThis is the root of the problem isn't it? The wrong tool for the job.
- jjgreen 6y agoTolstoy keeps on giving ...