"Addiction is the persistent use of a substance where that use is detrimental to the user."
This article I am reading on http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/tutorials/spreadsheet-addiction/ is about addictions to spreadsheets.
The hard way looks easy, the easy way looks hard.
Some financial companies have spreadsheet computations that take a very long time (even all night). If these computations were replaced using code, this time could be cut drastically, maybe even to a few minutes.
Strength of spreadsheets? A cell can be both a formula and a value.Some cells have hidden meaning - you don't know if it is a pure number of a number that is derived due to a formula in the cell.
This article talks about the strengths of switching from Excel to R.
Excel is a spreadsheet. R is a programming language.
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