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Exactly that. Also in my expereince as a Data Science consultant was that by far the best approach was to just rebuild what they attempted in excel in python. A

• ignoramous 5y ago
  > Also now that I think of it Excel is the original low code solution haha It indeed is: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-fx-open-source-now-available/ https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-fx-open-sou...
• simonh 5y ago
  This came up in the thread on Bank Python (last week?). These systems have frameworks for implementing Directed Acyclic Graphs of functions in Python to simplify migrating Excel workflows into peer reviewed, version controlled code.
• tharne 5y ago
  > Excel is the original low code solution I'm surprised how infrequently this comes up, given the massive usage of Excel in the business world; low-code/no-code is always discussed as if it's something new. Non-programmers in corporate America have been building excel applications for decades. You'd be surprised and a little scared by how many business critical processes depend on an excel workbook stored on a sharepoint somewhere. Interestingly enough, Excel in many ways is also a sort of functional programming for the masses. Excel functions are (mostly) pure. Columns are sort of immutable, and you tend to build applications as collections of smaller functions composed together as you might in Lisp.