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Don't be ridiculous. 90% of software written is excel sheets. Perhaps 90% of the remainder is crud apps - that I could believe.
by danielheath 6y ago
Don't be ridiculous. 90% of software written is excel sheets.
Perhaps 90% of the remainder is crud apps - that I could believe.
- argiopetech 6y agoFrom one point of view, Excel is a general purpose, schemaless CRUD environment with a DSL that allows you to encode your custom process and business logic.
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- theshrike79 6y agoAlso disturbing amounts of our economy run on top of Excel sheets with macros and VBA. It's the one tool that is on every desktop in the company and doesn't need a 6 month procurement process. It might be shit, but it's there and it'll get the job done well enough.
- pc86 6y agoThe only thing more disturbing than running large segments of our economy on Excel and VBA would be running large segments of our economy on some untested Rust or Haskell library. If it's "shit" but it "get[s] the job done well enough" is it actually shit just because it's not being a Kubernetes cluster?
- theshrike79 6y agoThe "shit" part in excel is that there are very limited tools for automated testing and verification. There's no simple or standard way to tell that line 1138 of a 10k+ line excel sheet has a typo in the formula. Or check whether Excel has "helped" and changed some numbers to dates without telling anyone.