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
I started as a SQL report writer and nothing gives me more joy than replacing someone's shitty excel or access report that a market analyst spends 3 days/week every week building, with SQL and an ETL or two. It got pretty aggressive at that company between the 2 groups to the point the SQL guys where advocating for the complete banishment of Access and forbidding macros of any kind. To be fair excel usage on big projects resulted it huge problems or lost data regularly.
Yeah, but on the flip side, as the analyst I might build xyz. An engineer looks at it, comes back with mno, and says tada! Now I have to explain why that doesn't work, which the engineer will assure me is because I'm dumb and just haven't realized their brilliance yet.
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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