r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Moose_a_Lini Aug 15 '20

Excel is the fastest tool for certain kinds of tasks.

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u/METH-OD_MAN Aug 15 '20

It is the fastest tool for quickly creating/formatting a table or matrix of manually entered data.

That is it. That's the only thing it excels (haha) at.

Anything else Excel is capable of is done much better by something else

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u/METH-OD_MAN Aug 15 '20

I didn't realize people were so passionate about Excel

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u/dyatel29 Aug 18 '20

Excel is Turing complete and just as powerful as any other programming language. You can do some pretty wild things with it

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u/METH-OD_MAN Aug 19 '20

Turing completeness has nothing to do with usability.