Excel enters its 40th year

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• humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Long live the one and only solution that is a big data platform, a database, and, of course, an AI tool

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget accounting software.

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    • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      accounting software

      Fuck yeah, I do all my accounting through excel

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  • slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The most versatile note pad in existence…

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And still the spreadsheet gold standard. Microsoft gets plenty of shit wrong but Excel is one thing they got right.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Suck it, Excell! I’m beating you! I’m older!!! I’m 41!!! All hail the king, baby!

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but can you pivot?

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    • Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not at his age

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    • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not only that, but i can also lookup X’s.

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only low-code platform I actually respect.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hear a lot of devs that don’t seem to get this.

    “WhY wOuLd YoU uSe ExCeL? I pReFeR tO cOdE mY oWn SoLuTiOn.”

    No, Why would I spend a week coding something that I can create a pivot table and some charts for in an hour? Especially when if I code it myself, that means I now own and have to support my lovely new utility. Time is money and I’ve got way more important things to do than build custom reporting suites that no one except me is ever going to use.

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    • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also prefer a spreadsheet, but for a proficient coder it’s not a week long job, unless they build it on bare metal. You can do a lot in an hour with a visualization library.

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  • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m borrowing that.

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• rauls4@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  40 years after ripping off VisiCalc which is 45 years old. And Aldus Persuation, and WordStar, and CPM, and Macintosh OS, and Netscape, and the list goes on.

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• RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet Google’s version is more useful

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol Google sheets has nowhere near the capabilities of Excel. They’re not even in the same class.

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    • myplacedk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Number of features that is has? Sure.

      Number of features that I need? Google Sheets wins.

      As I use Excel at work, I’d be happy if you prove me wrong here. Just yesterday I needed to do a simple search/replace with regular expressions. My solution was to copy the data to Google Sheets.

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  • AceSLive@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In what way?

    Excel is one of the best things Microsoft has ever made, in my opinion.

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    • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only way I could think of is the ease of setting up a collaborative spreadsheet.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  multiplan: “was i nothing to you?”

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …yes? What is multiplan? Some kind of fire evacuation software?

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Predecessor to Excel.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

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• demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you, Simon Peyton Jones.

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