☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoOceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheetwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@zerobytes.monstertechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkOceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheetwww.theverge.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@zerobytes.monstertechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squarePistcow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-23 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-up13·3 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.
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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.