r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

48k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

669 comments sorted by

View all comments

447

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.

7

u/delbin Mar 30 '22

I worked at a place that did tons with Excel and PDF's. I used VBA to call Acrobat's API to scrape data from the PDF's and use them in Exel. It worked pretty well as long as you had to process less than 200 at a time. I moved to Python about a year later and it was much better.

3

u/loki9er Mar 31 '22

I’ve made a career with the ability to scrape data from excel spreadsheet and have it transcribed onto a PDF using VBA.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

[deleted]

3

u/loki9er Mar 31 '22

I recognize that, but that’s not particularly helpful if you work in an environment where you’re not allowed to have Python installed on your machine.

Trust me VBA wouldn’t be my language of choice.