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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:57:36 -0000 (UTC)
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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.