Monday, February 11, 2013

Excel and its ongoing importance

Here's a fascinating look at Excel and the fact that its enables people to make programming errors that can bring down financial giants.  HNN thread and one man's way to convert the knowledge in Excel spreadsheets into more conventionally (and safely) maintained software.

There's a big market for recovering and formalizing knowledge currently encoded in amateur spreadsheets.  It would be a reasonable thing to investigate.  Not sure how best to market it.

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