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I remember a few years ago a guy wrote a 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound application that used Excel. I wish I could find it. Supposedly excel has very good uses oth
by post_break 13y ago
I remember a few years ago a guy wrote a 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound application that used Excel. I wish I could find it. Supposedly excel has very good uses other than spreadsheets.
- wikwocket 13y agoExcel is very powerful as a general-purpose tool. In addition to all the calculation systems built-in and easy-to-use, the "UI" (the grids and cells and chart/drawing tools) is extremely customizable, and VBA lets you do basically anything. It's the non-techie's IDE. This is what makes it so useful for business users, so hard for any other spreadsheet app to unseat, and so notorious among hackers (who often have to troubleshoot or replace complicated mega-workbooks)!
- pjungwir 13y agoI used to think that knowing HTML was the modern version of changing your own oil, but now I think it's knowing Excel. Of all the attempts to make a programming language or DSL for non-programmers (COBOL, SQL, AppleScript, Cucumber, ...), none has been successful like Excel.