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Excel is another amazing piece of software, that is almost universally looked down upon by programmers. I read somewhere that there are 10 x more Excel "progra
by kitd 4y ago
Excel is another amazing piece of software, that is almost universally looked down upon by programmers.
I read somewhere that there are 10 x more Excel "programmers" in the world than programmers for all other languages put together.
- 7thaccount 4y agoTo give a little anecdote, my 600 person company probably has 200+ engineers (mostly electrical with some mechanical). I'd say that 1/5 has some programming skill in Python or C# and 1/10 probably is pretty decent and spends 5+ hours a week writing code. I'm fairly confident that all 200/200 are competent Excel users with most all spending 10+ hours a week doing spreadsheets mapping data together and analyzing it. Pandas is great, but if you don't need all the stats and the dataset fits in the spreadsheet, Excel beats it hands down in most uses.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoI would not be surprised. I have said before that Excel is the most widely used programming environment in history and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, and it is all precisely because it provides users an on-ramp to programming in a domain where it is sorely needed.
- namaria 4y agoWhenever I hear someone hyping up some lowcode/nocode thing or asking about it, I point them to Excel and Access and say "that concept is older then Python, and it's not going anywhere".