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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by SoftTalker on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:29PM (#47197932)
Excel was the biggest example of a "4GL" that actually succeeded. They mentioned Access but Excel was by far more widely used. Excel enabled analysts to do so much on their own that they used to have to ask programmers in their IT department to do. Other spreadsheets too, at first, but Excel ended up dominating.
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Re:The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate P... by elzbardico on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:22PM (#47202169)
And it was an excellent local optimization that incurred giant costs for the whole organization. Every single place where there are this parallel excel IT world is a fucking security/compliance/data-security nightmare.
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