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Is Excel a systems programming language :)

• markus_zhang 5y ago
  https://www.callapple.org/software/assembly-language-in-excel/ https://www.callapple.org/software/assembly-language-in-exce...
• tbrownaw 5y ago
  Sure, it's where you write the high-level orchestration code for things that haven't been made sufficiently repeatable yet. :) Personally I tend to use it for light one-off database metaprogramming. Get a lit of objects that need to be maintenanced, generate the appropriate commands with a column of identical formulas, and then paste that back into the sql utility. (For more complex or long-lived things I'll use a more traditional language of course.) (Why yes, I am going to pretend I didn't accidentally a word.)
  • PaulHoule 5y ago
    I've seen other people do that. I think it's better to use a language like Python, but I have seen people do SQL scripts and many other kinds of code gen with Excel.