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davedx on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)

But professional programmers (emphasis on professional) are well aware of how codebases can grow out of hand and employ entire categories of theories, strategies and tools to keep their software maintainable, even when under delivery/time pressure. Excel doesn't really have much in this category of theories and tools.

fzumstein on July 12, 2019 | [–]

You can actually unit test your Spreadsheets surprisingly easily with Python: https://www.slideshare.net/xlwings/automated-testing-of-exce...

giardini on July 12, 2019 | [–]

You really should look at some of the links I provide above to Jocelyn Ireson-Paine's work.

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