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Excel is in our DNA and will never die
by niobe 2y ago
Excel is in our DNA and will never die
- TZubiri 2y agoFunnily enough our DNA does not use a fixed-length offset mechanism. It uses null termination sequences (and start sequences too, for some reason.) Which is closer to the storage mechanism of excel (XML), and not to it's visualization interface (tables).
- klabb3 2y agoInteresting. Well yeah null termination seems better if (a) you don’t have an integer encoding and (b) you have random ”bit” flips.
- TZubiri 2y agoI don't think you need integer encoding to process fixed lengths. They do it just fine at the word level for codons. You would need a specific mechanic processors for each different schema length pattern though. I think bit flips have no effect on the appropriateness of either fixed length or null termed. But omissions and comissions are probably why anything fixed length doesn't work.
- jon_richards 2y agoUnfortunately our DNA is also in excel. Several genes had to be renamed because they kept being identified as dates.
- smcin 2y agoExcellent