• Themadbeagle@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Having worked on a programs that automatically generate and process data from excel spreadsheets for a large company, I shuddered when you said that.

    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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      23 hours ago

      Oh my, no the other way round, spreadsheet loads the data and let excel handle it. I think you can probably even embed python at this point. I’m not seriously advocating for this approach either, to be clear.

      • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 hours ago

        This doesn’t help with reproducibility much. In fact it would make it worse as now you’re throwing windows into the mix needlessly as well as implicitly depending on excel at a point in time. Let’s not introduce more non determinism when it isn’t needed.