☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoOceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheetwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkOceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheetwww.theverge.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squarePistcow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-22 months agoWorked for multiple Fortune 500s, the world is held together by Cobol and Excel. If Excel were to stop working, the world would collapse.
minus-squarelobut@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoI worked for a major investment bank and one of their exotics trading teams was basically all add-ons and stuff built on top of Excel. To be fair, the traders looked like Wizards using it, it was pretty neat.
Worked for multiple Fortune 500s, the world is held together by Cobol and Excel. If Excel were to stop working, the world would collapse.
I worked for a major investment bank and one of their exotics trading teams was basically all add-ons and stuff built on top of Excel.
To be fair, the traders looked like Wizards using it, it was pretty neat.