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Originally Posted by Hoofless_Wonder
I would be more critical of M$ products if the smartest guy I ever worked with didn't use Excel for almost all his programming and analysis needs - and he was the lead ground system engineer for a NASA satellite program.
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Chances are that this guy was not a professional programmer but a scientist who was using the tool he knew the best. I can assure you, that although Excel and OO, both can be useful when working with data, they are never considered as an alternative to 'real' programming languages.
