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Sounds like the marketing was correct: they were able to create solutions without hiring programmers to do it. There's a reason excel is so ludicrously wildly

Sounds like the marketing was correct: they were able to create solutions without hiring programmers to do it. There's a reason excel is so ludicrously wildly popular as a business tool. It lets accountants do things you used to need a programmer for. That the automation may eventually grow so complex as to require a programmer anyway is not relevant to the utility of excel.

syshum 6y ago
Technically yes, but most of the time it wholly inefficient, not very secure, many times not even accurate or has very little in way of data validation (like Excel) You also end up with a TON of XY problem "solutions" It is a nightmare 90% of the time >>There's a reason excel is so ludicrously wildly popular as a business tool. Because it allows lower wage workers to implement half baked solutions, and manipulate data in away that executives want regardless if it accurate, true, or reliable? I will agree that Excel is a poster child for "no code", it has EVERY problem of no code in spades, I wish i could get back even 1/10th of the time I have wasted in my career trying to decipher some of the moronic things I have seen people do in excel. and do not get me started on people that treat Excel as a Database, Literally pulling in an entire table with a Select * SQL Query then using some excel function to do sorting and filtering.....
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  > Because it allows lower wage workers to implement half baked solutions, and manipulate data in away that executives want regardless if it accurate, true, or reliable? Or to phrase it more generously: It allowed people to create the tools they needed to make their lives easier without engaging the services of a professional programmer. I know that to the professional programmer this is a high-crime worthy significant prison time, but to me it is basically the point of personal computing.

syshum 6y ago

Technically yes, but most of the time it wholly inefficient, not very secure, many times not even accurate or has very little in way of data validation (like Excel) You also end up with a TON of XY problem "solutions" It is a nightmare 90% of the time >>There's a reason excel is so ludicrously wildly popular as a business tool. Because it allows lower wage workers to implement half baked solutions, and manipulate data in away that executives want regardless if it accurate, true, or reliable? I will agree that Excel is a poster child for "no code", it has EVERY problem of no code in spades, I wish i could get back even 1/10th of the time I have wasted in my career trying to decipher some of the moronic things I have seen people do in excel. and do not get me started on people that treat Excel as a Database, Literally pulling in an entire table with a Select * SQL Query then using some excel function to do sorting and filtering.....

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> Because it allows lower wage workers to implement half baked solutions, and manipulate data in away that executives want regardless if it accurate, true, or reliable? Or to phrase it more generously: It allowed people to create the tools they needed to make their lives easier without engaging the services of a professional programmer. I know that to the professional programmer this is a high-crime worthy significant prison time, but to me it is basically the point of personal computing.