>Except you can do it if you know what you're doing. Ye gads, why didn't we think of that in any other programming language? If we know what we're doing we can

>Except you can do it if you know what you're doing. Ye gads, why didn't we think of that in any other programming language? If we know what we're doing we can do whatever we feel like, and if we get the wrong answers, it was obvious that we didn't know what we were doing which can be fixed by just knowing what we were doing! Excel's only use case is for data that fits on one screen, or an exploratory poke at the data to see what's in which column and if there are any patterns you can eyeball. Then you put those hunches in a script and start doing the work for real.