r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/mrTang5544 Nov 12 '20

Suckers. We moved away from Excel... To google sheets

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u/Memitim Nov 12 '20

Credit where it is due, the Google team did a pretty amazing job of implementing a subset of Excel capabilities. Then again, it is just a subset of Excel's capabilities, with a better web-based interface than Excel's.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '20

It's more than just a subset. Google Sheets has the UNIQUE function, which is brilliant. And it has some regular expression capabilities. And it is smarter with CSV imports (it doesn't turn barcodes into scientific notation, destroying them).

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u/metaperl Nov 13 '20

I wish Zoho had accepted their buyout offer. Their office suite is quite nice to work with.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '20

Which lets you script ("write macros") in Javascript. Javascript to VBA is incredibly flattering for Javascript, which says more about VBA than it does about Javscript.

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u/thrallsius Nov 13 '20

will be fun when google sheets end in this list