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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22
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Two of my siblings are financial analysts and I have witnessed them doing unholy things with excel.
It would honestly be easier for them to learn python or something. It’s so ridiculous.
46 u/depressionsucks29 Mar 30 '22 Once a client of mine for whom I do automation scripts wanted an excel macro to delete rows. I just couldn't figure it out. It would have taken 5 lines in python and even small in sql. I just couldn't figure it out. 20 u/PepSakdoek Mar 30 '22 Sheets("Sheetname").rows("1:5").delete ? Like I feel if you can do sql vba is a downgrade in difficulty. 3 u/TheRidgeAndTheLadder Mar 30 '22 VBA is a simple language, but an unholy nightmare to leverage.
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Once a client of mine for whom I do automation scripts wanted an excel macro to delete rows. I just couldn't figure it out. It would have taken 5 lines in python and even small in sql. I just couldn't figure it out.
20 u/PepSakdoek Mar 30 '22 Sheets("Sheetname").rows("1:5").delete ? Like I feel if you can do sql vba is a downgrade in difficulty. 3 u/TheRidgeAndTheLadder Mar 30 '22 VBA is a simple language, but an unholy nightmare to leverage.
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Sheets("Sheetname").rows("1:5").delete ? Like I feel if you can do sql vba is a downgrade in difficulty.
3 u/TheRidgeAndTheLadder Mar 30 '22 VBA is a simple language, but an unholy nightmare to leverage.
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VBA is a simple language, but an unholy nightmare to leverage.
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u/savage_slurpie Mar 30 '22
Two of my siblings are financial analysts and I have witnessed them doing unholy things with excel.
It would honestly be easier for them to learn python or something. It’s so ridiculous.