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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by cm2187 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:21AM (#16686400)
Agree. Well, ideally you would want to give a path for non technical users to do more than spreadsheets. That was the promise of hyper-card, VBA, etc. But that's not the direction of the world anymore, quite the opposite.
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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by bonesss on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:00AM (#16687103)
Totally agree.

Nowadays you have JS to automate Google and MS docs, but 1) Javascript is kinda warty for VBA-type users, 2) API driven javascript is less friendly than the locally-logical VBA-style access, and 3) the mental barriers to entry are much higher than older solutions to the same issues...

In theory we should be approaching data-nirvana for end users. In reality it takes a lot of tech know how to bridge those gaps in the modern Enterprise and you're getting almost no help from the big boys.

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