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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 u

by 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.