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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前

Excel enters its 40th year

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Excel enters its 40th year

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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前
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More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world
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    Long live the one and only solution that is a big data platform, a database, and, of course, an AI tool

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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      Don’t forget accounting software. And Pixel art maker. And Eve Online interface.

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        accounting software

        Fuck yeah, I do all my accounting through excel

    • slurpeesoforion@startrek.website
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      The most versatile note pad in existence…

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    And still the spreadsheet gold standard. Microsoft gets plenty of shit wrong but Excel is one thing they got right.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    Suck it, Excell! I’m beating you! I’m older!!! I’m 41!!! All hail the king, baby!

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, but can you pivot?

      • Matty_r@programming.dev
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        Not at his age

      • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world
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        Not only that, but i can also lookup X’s.

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    The only low-code platform I actually respect.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      I hear a lot of devs that don’t seem to get this.

      “WhY wOuLd YoU uSe ExCeL? I pReFeR tO cOdE mY oWn SoLuTiOn.”

      No, Why would I spend a week coding something that I can create a pivot table and some charts for in an hour? Especially when if I code it myself, that means I now own and have to support my lovely new utility. Time is money and I’ve got way more important things to do than build custom reporting suites that no one except me is ever going to use.

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        I also prefer a spreadsheet, but for a proficient coder it’s not a week long job, unless they build it on bare metal. You can do a lot in an hour with a visualization library.

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          I spent some time looking into this, getting nowhere. What’s your favorite library that actually works for you?

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            Matplotlib is a fairly popular one, but it depends on what it is you want to do with the data.

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            Matplotlib

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      I’m borrowing that.

  • demesisx@infosec.pubBanned from community
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    Thank you, Simon Peyton Jones.

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    multiplan: “was i nothing to you?”

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      …yes? What is multiplan? Some kind of fire evacuation software?

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
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        Predecessor to Excel.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

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    40 years after ripping off VisiCalc which is 45 years old. And Aldus Persuation, and WordStar, and CPM, and Macintosh OS, and Netscape, and the list goes on.

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    And yet Google’s version is more useful

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      Lol Google sheets has nowhere near the capabilities of Excel. They’re not even in the same class.

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        Number of features that is has? Sure.

        Number of features that I need? Google Sheets wins.

        As I use Excel at work, I’d be happy if you prove me wrong here. Just yesterday I needed to do a simple search/replace with regular expressions. My solution was to copy the data to Google Sheets.

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      In what way?

      Excel is one of the best things Microsoft has ever made, in my opinion.

      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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        The only way I could think of is the ease of setting up a collaborative spreadsheet.

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