[vox-tech] collaborative data storage (of excel files)

[Gandalf Parker]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Henry House wrote:
> Good approach, though i would disagree with the statement that mathy
> stuff with numbers is best in spreadsheets. I've wasted enough time
> scrubbing spreadsheet cells one by one to see the hidden formulas to
> find the one with the error to decide that spreadsheets are unsuitable
> for anything except quick exploratory analysis that will later be
> transferred to a robust environment (i.e., R). This is a consequence of
> the broken design model of spreadsheets.
>
> Specific programs (*cough* Excel *cough*) also have nasty bugs in their
> math functions (that have been known for years but never fixed) that
> yield mathematically invalid results when presented with certain
> atypical inputs. Just say no to spreadsheets.

Well of course programming beats everything  :)
Even scripting where you can choose the proper tools for a pipe has its 
advantages. I was only covering the proper use of applications. Anything 
real involved came to our desk anyway.

Gandalf  Parker