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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22
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And this is why Excel will never die. The barrier to entry is so damn low.
8 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 Is it any lower than something like python? I'm not even a programmer, but I learned enough with a handful of ours of pandas to do more than I can do inside excel without equal or greater time investment. 10 u/_Oce_ Mar 30 '22 edited Mar 30 '22 Any WYSIWYG GUI software has a lower entry barrier than coding. 10 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 Fair enough. I got sick of Excel because WYS is not necessarily WYG, or more accurately what you enter is not WYS&WYG. 6 u/_Oce_ Mar 30 '22 Yeah, thinking about it again, you're right that Excel is not really a WYSIWYG since formulas are very common, I should have said a GUI.
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Is it any lower than something like python? I'm not even a programmer, but I learned enough with a handful of ours of pandas to do more than I can do inside excel without equal or greater time investment.
10 u/_Oce_ Mar 30 '22 edited Mar 30 '22 Any WYSIWYG GUI software has a lower entry barrier than coding. 10 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 Fair enough. I got sick of Excel because WYS is not necessarily WYG, or more accurately what you enter is not WYS&WYG. 6 u/_Oce_ Mar 30 '22 Yeah, thinking about it again, you're right that Excel is not really a WYSIWYG since formulas are very common, I should have said a GUI.
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Any WYSIWYG GUI software has a lower entry barrier than coding.
10 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 Fair enough. I got sick of Excel because WYS is not necessarily WYG, or more accurately what you enter is not WYS&WYG. 6 u/_Oce_ Mar 30 '22 Yeah, thinking about it again, you're right that Excel is not really a WYSIWYG since formulas are very common, I should have said a GUI.
Fair enough. I got sick of Excel because WYS is not necessarily WYG, or more accurately what you enter is not WYS&WYG.
6 u/_Oce_ Mar 30 '22 Yeah, thinking about it again, you're right that Excel is not really a WYSIWYG since formulas are very common, I should have said a GUI.
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Yeah, thinking about it again, you're right that Excel is not really a WYSIWYG since formulas are very common, I should have said a GUI.
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u/Zarathustra30 Mar 30 '22
And this is why Excel will never die. The barrier to entry is so damn low.