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Re:Use Spreadsheets Everywhere by asdff on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:46PM (#28052001)
Python is preinstalled on macs at least, that's a decent chunk of personal computers. You have to pay for excel. And you don't need to bother with virtual environments to fiddle with a flat file.
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Re:Use Spreadsheets Everywhere by bnj on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:09PM (#28056156)
I think an important part of the battle for attention is that excel is visible as a GUI that inexperienced users can open from an icon and see and manipulate. A simple GUI utility with Python input in one pane and data input in the other might put them on more equal footing.
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