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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by olav on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:55AM (#27051538)
Just yesterday I stumbled across https://pyspread.gitlab.io/ after finding that coding Excel is a complete desaster from a software engineering point of view - no testing, no debugging, no version control, no structure. It must have costed humanity many billions in vain.
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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by Optimal_Persona on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:18PM (#27066381)
Whaddya mean no version control? What about CTRL + SHIFT + S every few minutes with incremental cryptic filename additions to USE_THIS_ONE_CopyofCopyof_VERY_IMPORTANT_myLatest_Edits_to_Copy_of(3)_DONT_DELETE.xlsx? ;-) But if you use Office 365 for file storage, there is actual version history for Office documents.
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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by ant6n on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:48AM (#27095536)
If the version history isn’t named, then there is no version control, just versioning.
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