DConf 2019: All Spreadsheets Must Die -- Robert Schadek
Overview
A DConf 2019 talk by Robert Schadek arguing that spreadsheets are the world's dominant programming language and that D can be used to replace them. It looks at spreadsheet quirks and then at techniques for moving away from them.
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Mostly appears as a link in Who is hiring job posts from a company using D, and once as deeper background in a thread about Excel.
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Video by The D Language Foundation, played through YouTube.
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