Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs

Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by eru on Thursday November 23, 2017 @12:59PM (#15766720)

Compare "Improving the world’s most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/improvi...

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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by thanatropism on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:16PM (#15766832)

UDFs are the real LPT. Much of gnarly spreadsheeting going around has to do with having to simulate loops with rows or just partition very large formulas (think option pricing formulas) into partial result cells.

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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by eru on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:28PM (#15766917)

Could you explain your first sentence? The acronyms are a bit dense.

Edit: UDF is user defined functions. What's LPT?

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