Re: The problem with not owning the software

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:25:01 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
 

-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
 

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.

 
Sounds horribly inefficient and virtually impossible to debug. I'd bet a
decent python script would do it in minutes, with a tiny footprint and
be reliable.

 
Even Microsoft realizes that now.

I presume you're referring to excel now including a python interpreter. I
don't think it's much of an improvement.