Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands

Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:50PM (#15819895)

Erm, they would also need a programmer at that point. More to the point, excel is more of a thinking tool that allows for lots of tinkering with real time feedback. Programming languages require lots of thinking up front and are not meant for thinking without significant augmentation (REPL, Jypiter notebooks).

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by michaelmrose on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:53PM (#15819919)

Excel is a garbage environment and its pretty trivial to find environments that provide both a capable environment AND immediate feedback.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by Bishonen88 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:01PM (#15819990)

Please tell me where every user can create his own gui within 5 minutes with shapes, activex controls, pictures, keyboard shortcuts, combine those with code which was created by macro-recording (and as such needs the most basic knowledge of programming if any), that can be opened by almost every PC in the business world (as 99% has excel installed), which comes with 100's functions and formulas allowing to create anything and everything. On top of that, please no higher costs than ~50$/user.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by selimthegrim on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:10PM (#15820061)

Delphi, before Embarcadero shat the bed

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