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by teataster 1877 days ago
Working on a financial institution as a forecaster, I once inherited an excel spreadsheet that took 3 hours to open. It was full of bugs. At one point it mixed the Swiss franc and the Argentinian peso and that was sold to clients. That would be blatantly obvious if done in Python or R. It took me 2 years after inheriting to figure it out.

I use spreadsheets but oftentimes they are not the right tool for the job.