Re: The problem with not owning the software

On 12/30/24 2:00 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:30:53 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
 

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:08:00 -0500, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
wrote:
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I have a colleague who's done some amazing stuff in Excel using Visual
Basic Script (VBS); the PC I had at the time would fail just trying to
load the files; his beefy machine he had would take literally hours to
crunch through a set.  A quick search shows that I still have an older
copy: it takes up 14.34GB on disk. Youch.

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I assume you meant to say VBA, Visual Basic for Applications, which is
built into each of the major MS Office applications?

 Possibly, but there was a VBScript.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript

To be honest, I don't know ... I'd have to go ask which one ... although knowing this person, I'd not be surprised if they used both.
At the time, this spreadsheet model was a "sanity" distraction while worrying through his son's cancer treatments; in one summer he used it to make $80K by day-trades on the Stock Market .. it helped to pay down the medical bills.  I laughed when he commiserated that the biggest shortcoming the model had was that it was predicting up to two (2) days in advance, which made it tricky to use.
  -hh