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> — DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE WITH PROPER APPS? This might be just me and my professional circle, but we understand "app" as a to
by DocTomoe 6y ago
> — DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE WITH PROPER APPS?
This might be just me and my professional circle, but we understand "app" as a toy that runs on a phone. Apps, by definition, are never "proper". We would never replace Excel with an APP. We might replace Excel with a "program" or a "system", or even a "framework".
- d--b 6y agoWhat you may not know, is that a lot of people use Excel as an app container.
- pdenton 6y agoYou mean, I already had a Docker in 1997?
- d--b 6y agoPretty much. In all seriousness, it was used a bit like that. I know of a bank who set up excel "farms". You'd start a bunch of computers somewhere. Send them a spreadsheet. Have Excel open them and run some macros. Get back the results. They would do it to calculate various scenarios that took a long time to run. That was 2007...
- johnchristopher 6y agoOne could day Excel was /is an ok-ish database builder with integrated editor and real time output.