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> It's very unlikely any such system would face these limitations and would silently ignore data the same way Excel did. I’ve seen plenty of production systems
by javagram 6y ago
> It's very unlikely any such system would face these limitations and would silently ignore data the same way Excel did.
I’ve seen plenty of production systems that ignore or hide errors. Sometimes they’re still logging them, but it just goes to some log store or file that the team doesn’t check until their customers or support team inform them that it’s broken.
Good practice? No. But there are plenty of ways to mess up a non-Excel system and get something that works worse.
- lmm 6y agoI'm sure that a developer who's determined enough can mess up any system. And Excel is by no means the only system with that kind of dangerous default (I remember MySQL 4 had very similar behaviour, as did early versions of PHP). But the industry knows this is far from best practice.