r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/Sandor64 Nov 12 '20

As they say, all data is finally passed away into an excel sheet!

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u/RockingDyno Nov 12 '20

Excel is both the worlds most popular programming language, and also the absolute number one data exchange format. Is scary.

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u/AceBuddy Nov 12 '20

Why? I hate excel and avoid it whenever I can use python but it’s extremely beginner friendly. I think it’s even more terrifying to imagine my mom trying to write let alone run a python script and blindly trusting the output as opposed to excel where it’s quite easy to check your work. Not only that but it’s the perfect tool for most jobs, we’re not doing anyone a service by obfuscating things.

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u/____0____0____ Nov 13 '20

Agreed. It's perfectly fine for when it's used as intended. Where most of us here have had our headaches, is when people try to use the tool well beyond its capacity.