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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by pbronez on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:58PM (#26127822)
Sure, but that has nothing to do with Excel. You could say the same thing about basically any legacy application on any stack.
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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by sircastor on Saturday February 13, 2021 @07:29PM (#26128472)
Yes,it doesn’t have anything to do with Excel, except Excel is there, has been there for 25 years and keeps getting updated and supported.

I can’t speak to what gets maintained in Excel, but compared to some Win95 program, it’s in much better shape.

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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by ajnin on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:03AM (#26130999)
It does have something to do with it in the sense that it locks code in a proprietary format that does not allow code traceability and source co trol, and does not favor best practices like code comments and commit comments. That does make maintenance harder.
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