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A comment on Ask HN: "No code" works well for making games but not general software. Why?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: "No code" works well for making games but not gen... by breadloaf on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:11PM (#31783630)
This. Excel is (kind-of) No Code way for creating general purpose software for masses by masses. But it really depends on skillset of user. I saw a guy who wrote DB system in Excel, I witnessed employee putting data into Excel and then working them out via calculator and putting results in the Excel manually.
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Re:Ask HN: "No code" works well for making games but not gen... by ZseeBrz on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:47PM (#31784149)
Said employee with the calculator might have been smarter than you think: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/f...
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Re:Ask HN: "No code" works well for making games but not gen... by breadloaf on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:00PM (#31784321)
Point taken that floating point arithmetic might be broken in Excel, but most use cases of Excel are calculation without floating point numbers.
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