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by ajuc
1664 days ago
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In 2 separate companies I wrote java software that loaded .xlsx files with thousands of rows of rules written in 2 different proprietary ill-specified languages that were then interpreted by the java program. Excel Oriented Programming is a thing. |
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I once worked on an early era "smart" phone whose apps were written in a visual basic-like clone. We were silicon valley cool kids and thought people would love too write apps in a high level language rather than C or C++. This was pre-web, pre-javascript, pre-Android, pre-iOS. The large Japanese tech company putting the phone out was staffed by a bunch of electrical engineers whose idea of programming was a table driven state machine, so they used Excel to model the UI for the entire phone as one huge state machine, then wrote Excel basic that took that spreadsheet and generated the proprietary basic code for the device's UI. We thought they'd want to write basic code, but they wanted to code up a spreadsheet instead.