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And you find a bug that costs you $$$$, I worked for a company that used an opaque excel spread sheet as a part of its accounting system - turns out there wher

And you find a bug that costs you $$$$, I worked for a company that used an opaque excel spread sheet as a part of its accounting system - turns out there where bugs and we found a massive short fall one of the contributing factors in the collapse of the company.

etothepii 6y ago
This is the real problem. It's not with excel per se, but the complete lack of automated testing and source control.
- fnord123 6y ago
  Python works with source control and tests so this would indeed be a problem with Excel per se.
  - etothepii 6y ago
    But Python doesn't have to, I've seen plenty of python with 1000 line functions, no tests and no source control. It's particularly common in Jupyter Notebooks.