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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:30:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 18:31 this Tuesday (GMT):
> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:24:23 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>
>>> There was almost no difference between using Excel vs Calc even back
>>> then. But why anyone would use a spreadsheet for a job better suited to
>>> a database is still a mystery to me.
>>
>> My experience with Excel users is 'if you have a hammer everything looks 
>> like a nail'. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a spreadsheet used as 
>> intended.
>
> Check out ControlCalc. Our company hired a guy to build an air-traffic
> lighting system. He build the control hardware himself, and he used ControlCalc
> to drive it (and show graphics of various airfields).
>
> Each page/sheet in the spreadsheet was a single thread of execution.
> Loads of fun to figure out if you were new to that project.
>
> We (not me personally) rewrote it using C++ and Qt eventually.


That sounds miserable geez. It's cool that it's possible, but it
probably shouldn't be in production.
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