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1. allan (allan@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 16:55:08 EDT allan

   I'm reimplementing a perfectly functional piece of code in a byzantine excel spreadsheet, because business.

   1. allan (allan@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 17:00:16 EDT allan

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      The script was written to replace the previous huge, complicated, and impossible to maintain spreadsheet because it was huge, complicated, and impossible to maintain.

      But nobody (well besides me and the original author) can maintain anything but a spreadsheet (with no vba) so it must be a spreadsheet.

      1. allan (allan@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2019 17:05:45 EDT allan

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         Of course all of this business is just an elaborate exercise in working around the obvious: this whole mess is exactly what relational databases are designed for, but every enterprise database solution anyone around here has seen was a utter tire fire and so...excel.