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I've always hated excel. I'd much rather use R or Python. My first job used an Excel macro to automate tasks in a DOS emulator for some legacy software. It woul
by unosama 4y ago
I've always hated excel. I'd much rather use R or Python. My first job used an Excel macro to automate tasks in a DOS emulator for some legacy software. It would take days to complete and would regularly crash. As they say, if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
- civilized 4y agoGive me a slow, brittle, complicated, poorly documented app written in X by a bunch of people who have long since left the company, and I'll show you a way to make a person hate X. It doesn't matter what X is. And it's a shame, because improving or replacing those legacy X's can be a big opportunity, if the person is set up to seize it in the right way.
- driscoll42 4y agoI mean, but that same measure, you're advocating using R/Python as a hammer for everything. Python/R are great languages and tools, so is Excel, all three can be used in fantastic or awful ways.
- unosama 4y agoI never said it sohuld be used for everyhting. Excel it great for some simple tasks. But since the learning curve for those simple tasks which Excel does well is so low, people stick with it and start doing all kinds of stuff it isn't well suited for.