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Excel is a great tool for a developer.

• greggman 13y ago
  For what purpose? I've used Excel in the past for developer things but with Google Docs everyone can edit at the same time. I've used that feature as well which AFAIK I don't get with Excel or Open Office. The bigger the project the more likely multiple people will need to be able to edit the same file. It's easy to write a script to pull down the latest one. Just a thought.
  • pacaro 13y ago
    Some of the Microsoft Office suite have collaboration features (OneNote is good for this in my experience) I'm not sure about Excel As a developer I've often used Excel for modelling algorithms, as a log analysis tool (everything from plotting filtered log entries over time to creating complex pivot tables/charts) as a mathematical scratch pad Before twitter changed their auth protocol excel could be used as a pretty good twitter client[1], and it's still quite effective at web scraping the list goes on... [1] http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/02/05/twitter-from-excel/ http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/02/05/twitter-from-excel/
    • greggman 13y ago
      Those features are all available on spreadsheets in google docs. I use google docs as a mathematical scratch pad all the time. It also does graphs and it can be scripted in JavaScript. One of my friends wrote a script that downloads all the latest stock data every few minutes and does a bunch of analysis on it. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets I'm not suggesting you should give up Excel. Just pointing out the features you listed are available should you decide to take a look.