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I also hate Excel, but it's more of a love/hate relationship.
I'll always remember helping someone with excel and having to explain "yes, I know you've gone through some nice GUI menu and come to this field asking you for the date, but you gotta write in 42654.523, so it's easier if you just ask me every time instead of me trying to teach you why it's this way."
I also love/hate excel. It is great for a lot of simple jobs where writing code would take to much time, it is terrible because you can't audit your code* easily or at all. You get these hideously complex sheets referencing who knows what with no documentation.....
That's what excel is; code for people who don't know they're writing code - and its clearly a bad way of doing most of the things people do with it.
But on the flipside you have to give it props for getting people a foot into programming, even if they don't realise that's what they're doing (and folks who use actual languages and lines of text to achieve the same thing don't accept it for what it kinda is).
I think you could make an argument that Excel is the world's most used/successful IDE ;)
Haha oh boy, if there's one eternal rule with complex excel sheets it's that no one other than the person who made it will ever truely understand it 😆. But you can write VBA functions and throw them in the formulas to make them a bit tidier.
Not after 3 months - that's about when I've lost everything mentally.
Maybe it was all that acid in the 60s... (Hint: I'm nowhere near 80)
You can.....not everybody can.
To be fair, I'm not convinced I could anymore. It's been a long time.