On: Excel Never Dies

[adamredwoods]

Excel is horrible to program in. Example: I needed to import a bunch of URLs, then pull the query params out and auto-create a SQL query based on those. I was able to do it, but when I entered the Visual Basic editor, it was a whole new word of UI hurt.

[iamacyborg → adamredwoods]

That sounds like probably the sort of thing that shouldn't be done in Excel though.

[adamredwoods → iamacyborg]

I like to push software around, but yes, there are better ways to do this.

[dragonwriter → adamredwoods]

> Excel is horrible to program in.

VBA, and the built-in DE for it, isn't great, but you can program Excel other ways (Office Add-In, xlwings, etc.)