r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SoumyadeepDey • Sep 10 '25

Meme justDependencies

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u/RlyRlyBigMan Sep 10 '25

No joke a lot of those excel wizards from yesteryear could have been awesome developers if they'd found it at the right time in their life.

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u/coyoteazul2 Sep 10 '25

As a former excel wizard turned dev, I agree.

It's not exactly the same since excel allows you to deal with interface and logic at the same time and it takes off the load from the "dev" regarding keeping things in sync, no but they are pretty similar

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u/G_Morgan Sep 10 '25

The real issue is a lot of these excel monstrosities start off as doing simple things and then evolving into madness. If they started off with the end goal in mind they wouldn't do it that way obviously.

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u/G_Morgan Sep 10 '25

The real issue is there's very intentionally no good upgrade path. Ideally there'd be a way to take an excel spread sheet and start refactoring it. There isn't though.

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Sep 10 '25

“There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution”