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by asdff 1778 days ago
My problem with this is that if you can learn to use excel you can certainly learn to code. It's no harder. A given article for a given task in either is going to be like a 5 minute read.

=SUM(A1:A10) is no easier to do than sum(data$column). Why are we educating generations of excel users instead of generations of R and python users in undergraduate business programs? It seems so wasteful of young educated talent to learn how to do the same thing with such limited software, if its no harder to learn a general purpose software like python or R and do that same thing plus infinite more things.