• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Those are different categories of problems.

    Excel really does too much. Biologists literally renamed a genom because Excel kept turning it into a date. If any other database did that, the vendor would hear a friendly but stern “get fucked”.

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      9 months ago

      They’re using a spreadsheet and getting burned when it acts like a spreadsheet. It’s like complaining that a screwdriver did a bad job hammering nails.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, that’s my point. Excel is almost never the right tool, but since it’s doing so much, it can be used for almost anything, just in a very shitty manner. And in reality, it is used for almost anything.