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by otabdeveloper4 1199 days ago
Non-technical folks write complete IT systems in the nightmarish programming language of Excel macros.

I think the language used language isn't the main blocker here.

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yeah and than they argue that they can't program. or that they can't write down pseudocode of their excel macros.

but they use way more complex if/elseif/else statements than everybody. they know how to use the ridiculousness of a vlookup.

and than some of these guys figured out to use powerfx via power apps another behemoth of a excel kind of syntax and they still don't think tey can program.

language is definitly not the blocker. heck there are even people who write brainfuck, just to have fun.

I mean yeah cucumber is probably not the future of programming.

If I’m told to build a report or form collection for a product.

I always tell them to go build it in excel first. Than it to hand me. Sometimes I build it out in excel. 100% everytime they change everything about it several times over, but I can make all the changes requested in minutes instead of hours, days or weeks.

Implementing a working excel document in a modern language is trivial.