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What's with "ditch Excel"? Why not "ditch Pandas", which this is much closer to. Better yet, why not just create a tutorial on using Julia without mentioning ot

What's with "ditch Excel"? Why not "ditch Pandas", which this is much closer to. Better yet, why not just create a tutorial on using Julia without mentioning other tools, and let the reader decide? Julia lets you SUM an entire column! Unbelievable! And you can rename a column? I'm blown away! Excel has tons of point-and-click capabilities that don't require IMPORTing anything or knowing what an IOBuffer is. When you try to pretend that Julia can replace Excel, you just make yourself look foolish and uninformed.

ku-man 6y ago
"...why not just create a tutorial on using Julia without mentioning other tools, and let the reader decide?" This. Every single blog post about Julia disqualifies other tools and programming languages, most of the times very stridently. The Julia fanboys are well known for disparaging non-stop against Python and R.
socialdemocrat 6y ago
It is meant as an example for beginners to understand how you work with data in tables with a programming language. You got to walk before you can run. The advantage of a programming language such as Julia is that you can simply copy paste code examples to manipulate data by just reading a blog entry as in the case. You cannot do that with Excel. When you begin getting into more advance Excel functionality, it is not obvious how it works, and learning it will require a very visual approach. You cannot search through a blog and copy some code. You need to look at pictures and videos showing how the GUI is operated. Alternatively read a textual description of what you need to click on. Rather cumbersome.
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