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A year ago I graduated and started working in the corporate world. Damn Windows and MS Office all around. I realize now, that at university I was living in a bubble of nice, free software. And if you had a problem you programmed your way out of it. Now I use Excel all the time.

Good thing I have side projects.

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It really depends on the corporate world. Some uses free software as well.

I think the point of the parent comment was not about software being free but by being able, quote, "to program[...] your way out of it". Which I think is an important argument for or against Excel (or many other programs) depending on whether we talk about programming users or non-programming users.

Right. But probably I was just lucky enough never to encounter such kind of corporate world which uses Excel (or any other spread sheet software for that matter) in such weird fashion.

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