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How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years (www.thedrive.com)
submitted 10 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you even read the article?

[–] Olap 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yup. And extra extra, excel can be beaten for specific examples with lots of extra tooling. But you know what that tooling will also do? Generate excel reports

[–] daddy32 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

hmm generating static excel reports doesn't sound bad, as long as these are used just as output format - basically a familiar GUI.

[–] Olap 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it is a good data dense gui, and is ubiquitous. But now it does python too! What a dreadful decision that was

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Generating a report using Excel as a format is a lot different from using Excel as a database.