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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by netsharc on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:10PM (#37472216)
> But if you want to type them, you have to do that in english and then have excel translate them.

Huh? At least in the versions I've used I've always needed to type the commands in German.

There's even an online German - English Excel dictionary...

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by nottheengineer on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:14PM (#37473001)
I wittnessed this very fuckery with my own eyes just two weeks ago:

It was an excel file created in pandas that threw an error on english commands but worked if the code included german ones.

I don't know how or why that happens, I just know I need to get away from it.

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