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   From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to Bill Sloman  :   
   >> It's OK if you are an accountant, I guess.   
   >   
   >Accountants have to explain what they are doing to other accountants,   
   >and Excel won't let you do anything that is hard to explain. ...   
      
   It's hard to belive that anyone who has used Excel would say that.  In my   
   experience, any Excel spreadsheet large enough to be interesting has bugs.   
      
   Back in the 1980s I worked on a financial modeling package called Javelin.   
   You could use it for a lot of the financial stuff people do in spreadsheets   
   (Lotus 1-2-3 at the time.) The models were a lot more structured and it   
   was far easier to audit them and check that they did what you expected.   
      
   Users didn't care, they loved their spreadsheets.  Best quote: "It's up to my   
   boss to check if my speadsheets are right."   
      
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   John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for   
   Dummies",   
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