Python is used as a kind of 'visual basic' language in a lot of banks especially in front-of-house trading software, e.g murex or frontarena. Migrations between major versions of these can take years, costs 100s of millions and involve thousands of devs. Mistakes can be _expensive_.

It is kind of 'insane' but also, meh..

There's more dragons out there than we've been led to believe :}

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zulux a day ago | parent [-]

It's a great 'glue' language to tie a lot of systems together, especially when you think of MS Excel as a system.

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elmo125 a day ago | parent [-]

Although i really love or maybe have some memories, but isn't ms excel outdated , kinda, except the idea that it's always have easy fast solution

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zbentley a day ago | parent | next [-]

> isn't ms excel outdated , kinda, except the idea that it's always have easy fast solution

“People shouldn’t use this tool, unless they want stuff quickly and easily”.

Excel isn’t outdated, and has no competitor (there are many things that compete on sub parts of what Excel does, but nothing that competes on all or even most of its capabilities). Business-side people are creating fairly massive application-type tools in Excel every day, by the thousands. If I had a nickel for every new, growing, modern business I’ve worked with that uses Google for an office suite but has a few departments with Windows/MS Office just so people can process data in Excel, I’d have a lot of nickels.

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swiftcoder 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So outdated that this week Apple used it as a benchmark of the M6 Mac mini: "Spreadsheet calculations in Microsoft Excel are up to 2.3 times faster than on an M1-based Mac mini"

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