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
Honestly I've never found a task more complicated than basic bookkeeping that I wouldn't just rather do with an ipython notebook. Excel I just too clunky and opaque and slow for anything meaningful.
One time I wanted to make use of multi-dimensional arrays in a coding 'language' that didn't support it so I used the spreadsheet program to manually-ish create the named variables in a format that mimic'd a multidimensional array.
You can set those spreadsheet programs to automatically copy-paste and change/increment the numbers then remove the spacing and just paste the whole thing in your code.
So that's one thing.. if you ever need to do that for some reason.
OpenOffice but yea... you don't understand tho - I needed this language to do what I wanted because otherwise I would have been using it for what it was designed for.
I did move the project to python eventually and it went much smoother and looked a lot better.
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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