My problem with Excel isn't the principle of spreadsheet software, but that it's bad spreadsheet software. It has a bad expression language and a bad API and bad type-safety and bad automatic type coercions and bad range behavior and bad copy-paste functionality...
There are so many boneheaded things wrong with Excel that they can't fix because they must stay bug-compatible.
So I keep dealing with text getting mangled into dates and iso8601 dates getting mangled into God knows what and papers getting examined and people finding out "oops your data got screwed up by some counterintuitive behavior of excel and your findings are all wrong".
There are so many boneheaded things wrong with Excel that they can't fix because they must stay bug-compatible.
So I keep dealing with text getting mangled into dates and iso8601 dates getting mangled into God knows what and papers getting examined and people finding out "oops your data got screwed up by some counterintuitive behavior of excel and your findings are all wrong".