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Yeah, I remember Lotus... And you seriously would've rather used that??? I prefer to keep torture out of schools. It was the other way around, at least where I
by EUROCARE 4y ago
Yeah, I remember Lotus... And you seriously would've rather used that??? I prefer to keep torture out of schools.
It was the other way around, at least where I live. Companies pressured schools to teach skills they actually need people to have - and that's MS Office, because even today nothing else comes close.
And children with aptitude for computers, who don't need office suites but would like programming - that's less than 1%. If you want public schools, you're not going to have specialized teaching for small groups - nobody pays more for that.
- dijit 4y ago> you would seriously prefer that?! I’d prefer a real education about how computers work, not to learn any particular single tool or ecosystem. Religious education does not only teach Christianity. It’s wild that computer education only teaches (or taught) Microsoft (a non-European proprietary corporation). > even today nothing else comes close. Close to what though? Close to replicating MS office? Sure, but that’s like judging an apartment building on the merits of a house. Your implication that productivity tools compared to MS office are lacking. That’s extremely dubious, perhaps some features are lacking (google sheets doesn’t support GANT charts for example) but there’s other things that you can do which are impossible in office (google sheets can do raw SQL and attach to big query); I’m specifically comparing google to MS here but it’s mainly to give an idea that things don’t map 1:1 across productivity suites. And yes: The world runs on excel, but I find it hard to believe that’s because excel is the pinnacle of software. It’s probably more to do with that it’s “good enough” and fairly flexible- and crucially, everyone knows it and it’s pitfalls. You can be productive with other software.
- EUROCARE 4y agoExcel can do SQL as well, and it actually has abstracted data connectors capable of much more than just SQL and you can easily provide your own connectors too, and much more than just connectors - Excel is used e.g. as a full-fledged trading station at some places. It's capabilities like these why Excel runs the world, it's not some accident of history. You don't need to do stuff like this all the time, but it makes no sense to use two office suites, so you use the more capable one.
- dijit 4y agoAs a person in the world who has done PNLs for pretty large companies (in excel) which constituted 30GB of working memory to open. No, that is not why Excel runs the world. Those capabilities are not used even slightly in the companies I’ve worked at.