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I suspect path dependence (and price for quantrix) more than anything is what keeps Excel in charge.

I mean even beyond just switching costs: Excel is for instance the only format for getting data from http://www.earthchem.org/petdb/ or, to keep harping on geologists, people that keep implementing models in excel: which you then have to use because nobody trusts code you wrote yourself.

and it only gets worse with time.





I don't know if it's ironic in any useful sense, so much as fucking depressing.

though yes a calculator that refuses to let you enter numbers correctly is some 'Time Enough at Last' levels of irony.


It's not specific to Excel. Calc does it too. Turning off all that auto-correct bullshit is one of the first things that I do with a new install.




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