In one of the simulation classes I teach, I try to convey the same message. :-)
In a past life, I had to extend applications that used Excel as a front-end with a combination of interlinked functions in spreadsheet cells plus plenty of Visual Basic with a few compiled dlls rolled into the mix. The dlls (which I wrote in fortran) were the only components for which I had any confidence. Fun times! ;-) -gyro On 1/31/2021 11:17 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Friday, 29 Jan 2021 at 13:36, gyro funch wrote: >> Oooh. That should make Excel spreadsheets even funner to audit. > :-) > > I actually tell (warn?) my students that spreadsheets are an example of > a "write-only programming language", the other being APL (for those with > long memories). >
