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0 pointsjrockway14y ago0 comments

This is not the intended use case for Excel. Rather, it's a product of 10 years of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions.

(Someone I work with created a "market data bus" using Excel. It had the side effect of preventing Outlook from receiving email while it was running, so you had to have two machines if you wanted to read email AND get market data via this method. Now that's shoddy software engineering.)

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chollida114y ago

> This is not the intended use case for Excel. Rather, it's a product of 10 years of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions.

This is true :)

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