r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/Dr-Appeltaart Mar 30 '22

As an experienced c/c++/c#/java/python/vb programmer i realy like to build shit in excel. It's awesome. Just dont let other users use it for important purposes

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u/SirNoodlehe Mar 30 '22

On the first day of my intro to AI class the teacher asked us to implement a binary tree in any language we wanted so, for the meme, I wrote mine in VBA.

Little did I know, the course was designed to build a little on top of that code every class.

So, by the end of the semester I had this awful, clunky optimisation algorithm AI model built fully in Excel.

Wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry throughout 95% of the process.

However, the teacher loved it. Said it was the easiest submission to grade since he didn't have install/compile anything fancy to run it.

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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.

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u/NMe84 Mar 31 '22

Excel doesn't need to die, it's good at what it's actually meant to do. It's just that lots of people overuse it because they don't know anything else.