re: Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts

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Eh. To be fair excel is likely played a role for a vast majority of the worlds innovation (gotta be in the trillion $) and offers a powerful platform with low barrier to entry.

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Certainly, but it is not the tool for every job.

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Without knowing details on the issues you mentioned, I would imagine it’s a user error vs an actual program issue. It’s a tool to capture information, perform calculations, and ultimately drive decisions. User error is not software error (the gun didn’t pull its own trigger).

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A huge amount of software developer time is spent on preventing/correcting user errors. Excel has a footgun behind every cell. When it is that easy for users to blow things up, and that hard to prevent such things, you are absolutely using the wrong tool for the job.