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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by TheLoafOfBread on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:23AM (#33317917)
Or they could install Visual Studio and start writing .NET applications. Common, regular users often does not even know that Excel can do formulas and are filling single cells with calculator manually.
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Re:The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’... by pjmlp on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:35AM (#33318080)
Actually when I went back to desktop Windows development for a while on life sciences, that is exactly what many researchers did after they outgrew VBA, asking IT to get VB.NET on their desktops.

No R, no Python, VB.NET it was.

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