Post #625385
2025-10-25 11:12 UTC
Replies (8)
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@noboilerplate@namtao.com 2025-10-25 11:12
Most programmers (not I) would claim that Excel isn't real programming, and so this can't be true. But I wonder if it's not the nature of the language, but the gender of the programmers that is actually their problem... 🙃
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@faoluin@chitter.xyz 2025-10-25 12:20
@noboilerplate That would be called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and it has consistently ranked among the most hated programming languages in Stack Overflow polls.
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@nirak@lincolnite.net 2025-10-25 12:53
@noboilerplate and on top of that, visual basic that keeps that one essential database on that one essential computer running
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@kuraisle@mastodon.social 2025-10-25 12:59
@noboilerplate I worked for a small pharmaceutical company and only had Excel to work with, so I made a macro that would take the weird excel formats that came out of the instruments and populate the right number of sheets for analysis. I thought I was hot shit. Then in my current job I met the guy who writes full on apps in excel for GP surgeries because they aren't allowed to run anything else and knew I was a hack
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@cassimetrisch@troet.cafe 2025-10-25 20:15
@noboilerplate That and SAP. Unfortunately
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@Rin3d@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 00:26
@noboilerplate it falls in the same category as CSS as a 3d modeler or Typescript's type system for running doom, sure its possible but its slow painful and on par with esoteric langs like brainfuck.
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@steppl@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 08:53
@noboilerplate I once was on a project to replace a warehouse management system based on excel ... Which was for low volumes and worked 'ok' up to certain extent.
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@DXBTim2008@pkm.social 2025-10-29 11:24
@noboilerplate WordBasic was it... 3 lines IIRC to add Page X of Y needed to be added to a W4W ver 2 document... circ 1991-ish.... : ))))))