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It is amazing how many simple tasks at a company can be done with Excel that as programmers we often write custom code for. When all you have is a hammer...

At the same time. I have seen banks transfer money between branches by literally FTP transferring an Excel file. At some point there has got to be a better way. At least use SFTP :)

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I've thought about this before. Does it mean that our libraries aren't good enough? Do we just not know how to use them?

I often wish there was an intermediate between writing a fully custom piece of software for something and using excel. This about how many times you've worked on a web service (or other technology) and how much of the code is basically identical to every other webservice in that technology minus some unique data models and a few functions of custom logic.

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