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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by kumarvvr on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:59AM (#27050712)
> which is just similar to Python

What? Am I the only one who hates VBA with a burning hatred of a thousand suns?

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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by andy81 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:55AM (#27051541)
That's a common opinion.

The object model and IDE are a big part of it though, maybe even more so than syntax horrors like while..wend vs do while..loop.

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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by corty on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:00PM (#27051615)
The libraries in VisualBasic (before .net) do suck. But syntactically, Python and Basic are very close. I hate both very much, because all the nice features that make programming fun are lacking. Both feel very much like using a childs' toy instead of proper tools.
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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by auxym on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:10PM (#27052640)
VBA is very 90s. As in, similar to 90s era java, right up to the built-in IDE.
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