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		michaelochurch on April 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Damn Excel – How the 'most important application' ... Excel is not garbage. I'm not a MSFT fan at all but it's a great product. It is not, however, * a database, * a high-performance computation framework, * a good programming model for long-lived "code" or multiple-writer projects.

LyndsySimon on April 21, 2013 | [–]

If you want to be semantic, it is in fact a database. It isn't a good RDBMS, but it is a database.

It's also not a bad computational framework, within the bounds of its capabilities.

gtani on April 21, 2013 | [–]

i found out the other day criticizing anything about excel gets you pushback or backlash or some kind of "back"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574764

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