▲ 37 ▼ OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Worked for multiple Fortune 500s, the world is held together by Cobol and Excel. If Excel were to stop working, the world would collapse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent