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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by vb-8448 on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:53PM (#37470953)
So true!!! :D :D :D

If Excel stops working, financial institutions around the world would collapse.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by daydreamtrip on Monday September 11, 2023 @05:29PM (#37473978)
Python was just added to Excel so there's not much chance of that
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by JohnBooty on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:03PM (#37474312)
Really?? Oh, wow: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing...

Actually that's really awesome, I think.

My goal is basically to never touch Excel again. But, I have to admit - that 2D mixture of data and code called "a spreadsheet" is honestly a pretty cool programming paradigm for a lot of tasks. It can be horribly abused... but so can everything.

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