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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by rvba on Thursday December 31, 2020 @08:36AM (#25592527)
Someone who does not use Excel nice will probably make spaghetti code as well.
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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by larrywright on Friday January 01, 2021 @02:22PM (#25605900)
I'd rather reverse engineer spaghetti code than a spaghetti Excel spreadsheet.
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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by JackoM on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:46PM (#25642219)
Most probably because you do not know Excel !? But for someone who do know well Excel and understand finance concept it'd be easier to understand the spaghetti Excel spreadsheet and find where it doesn't work properly !
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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by empthought on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:57AM (#25612189)
You’ve been lucky with your spaghetti code experiences, then.
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Re:Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry by larrywright on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:17PM (#25617589)
At least with spaghetti code I can set a breakpoint or add print statements and get an understanding of the execution path.
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