And still the spreadsheet gold standard. Microsoft gets plenty of shit wrong but Excel is one thing they got right.
Excel enters its 40th year
Submitted 10 months ago by QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/excel_enters_its_40th_year/
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jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Suck it, Excell! I’m beating you! I’m older!!! I’m 41!!! All hail the king, baby!
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, but can you pivot?
Matty_r@programming.dev 10 months ago
Not at his age
Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not only that, but i can also lookup X’s.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The only low-code platform I actually respect.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
oldfart@lemm.ee 10 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.
pseudo@jlai.lu 10 months ago
I’m borrowing that.
rauls4@lemm.ee 10 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.
RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And yet Google’s version is more useful
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Lol Google sheets has nowhere near the capabilities of Excel. They’re not even in the same class.
myplacedk@lemmy.world 10 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.
AceSLive@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In what way?
Excel is one of the best things Microsoft has ever made, in my opinion.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The only way I could think of is the ease of setting up a collaborative spreadsheet.
adarza@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
multiplan: “was i nothing to you?”
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…yes? What is multiplan? Some kind of fire evacuation software?
Hawke@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Predecessor to Excel.
demesisx@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Thank you, Simon Peyton Jones.
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Long live the one and only solution that is a big data platform, a database, and, of course, an AI tool
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t forget accounting software.
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fuck yeah, I do all my accounting through excel
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 10 months ago
The most versatile note pad in existence…