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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:53:02 -0500
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On 12/30/24 2:00 AM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:30:53 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:08:00 -0500, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a colleague who's done some amazing stuff in Excel using Visual
>>> Basic Script (VBS); the PC I had at the time would fail just trying to
>>> load the files; his beefy machine he had would take literally hours to
>>> crunch through a set.  A quick search shows that I still have an older
>>> copy: it takes up 14.34GB on disk. Youch.
>>
>> I assume you meant to say VBA, Visual Basic for Applications, which is
>> built into each of the major MS Office applications?
> 
> Possibly, but there was a VBScript.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript


To be honest, I don't know ... I'd have to go ask which one ... although 
knowing this person, I'd not be surprised if they used both.

At the time, this spreadsheet model was a "sanity" distraction while 
worrying through his son's cancer treatments; in one summer he used it 
to make $80K by day-trades on the Stock Market .. it helped to pay down 
the medical bills.  I laughed when he commiserated that the biggest 
shortcoming the model had was that it was predicting up to two (2) days 
in advance, which made it tricky to use.

  -hh