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Path: ...!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:57:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <vkvfi0$1sirn$4@dont-email.me> References: <Tn39P.50437$%aWb.4583@fx18.iad> <nuy9P.28629$aTp4.27488@fx09.iad> <vkbuqd$18m92$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> <vkfva1$28j6k$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <vkhqif$2hvap$1@dont-email.me> <vkmd9n$3l76a$4@toylet.eternal-september.org> <vko7up$6qks$2@dont-email.me> <ltb26aFov8dU1@mid.individual.net> <fUYbP.143220$bYV2.129957@fx17.iad> <ltbjk1FrgqvU3@mid.individual.net> <zKecnbsivueyNO36nZ2dnZfqn_HTpa6r@earthlink.com> <vks1gq.ufk.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <ltdrjlF7nkqU6@mid.individual.net> <vkso91$12a03$10@dont-email.me> <vktlct$1i26p$9@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:57:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="41fdacfd7af50925eaa1291753caf57e"; logging-data="1985399"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Q3Pf0SM61dn0lVzr+pkhc" User-Agent: Pan/0.161 (Chasiv Yar; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rEeUYYZwqIOAX7ple/8z8PnPfTA= Bytes: 2207 On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:25:01 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote: > -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. > > Sounds horribly inefficient and virtually impossible to debug. I'd bet a > decent python script would do it in minutes, with a tiny footprint and > be reliable. Even Microsoft realizes that now.