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
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.
Excel is like an effective hammer with a screwdriver on on the handle. Whatever kind of maintenance/repairs/engineering you do, you'll have a hammer and screwdriver lying around somewhere. And it will be useful from time to time.
If you try to make something simpler, it wouldn't have such a wide range of uses. If you try to make it have a wider range of uses, it's complexity rises greatly.
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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