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by hermitcrab 1037 days ago
>Considering it's old age and the budget behind it it would seem like Excel should be THE solution to anything to do with tabular data by now.

If they change anything about how the (very broken) way they handle CSV files in Excel, it will break so many things. So they dare not change it. In fact genes have been renamed because Excel is so broken but unlikely to change:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a33549357...