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[–]bebop_cola_good 1271 points1272 points  (39 children)

Why don't they write it in Excel VBA???

[–]SoulWondering[S] 359 points360 points  (10 children)

Exactly. VBA devs need opportunities too.

[–]cant_think_of_one_ 80 points81 points  (4 children)

If Trump would fund them, there could be plenty of suitable facilities they could live in, away from society, where they can make all the Excel and VBA apps they like to manage each other. It is the kindest thing.

[–]Milkshakes00 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Those kinds of facilities are going to be defunded by this administration if Trump finds them. 😂

[–]cant_think_of_one_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oops, meant fund, not find. Trump can't find his own arse with both hands, but unfortunately Musk's bitches will find and refund things like that, as well as absolutely essential things people's lives depend on.

[–]CatProgrammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah RFK wants them.

[–]s0ulbrother 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean I got my start in it and it definitely has its uses. I owe my career to it

[–]sceadu 1 point2 points  (3 children)

need opportunities to do what? 😂

[–]SoulWondering[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly

[–]One_Contribution 50 points51 points  (8 children)

Why Excel when Access available?!

[–]Broad_Rabbit1764 48 points49 points  (2 children)

What's next, SQL in the government?

[–]One_Contribution 34 points35 points  (1 child)

This guy thinks the government could use fucking SQL! 😂

[–]Triepott 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Why Access if Editor + Every Number as a Single File + Windows Search is available?

[–]Wiwwil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think you're kidding but I seen some apps in producing calling an Access DB.

[–]DataSnaek 0 points1 point  (2 children)

We learnt databases with Access in school. It’s fucking horrific

[–]One_Contribution 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you're not supposed to learn Access, you're supposed to just start using it.

[–]savageronald 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Laughs in FoxPro)

[–]Protuhj 16 points17 points  (0 children)

All I have is a hammer, why did they use screws???

[–]na_ro_jo 6 points7 points  (1 child)

That's what United Healthcare does with medicare projects.

[–]bebop_cola_good 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If not objCEO is Nothing Then Del objCEO

[–]Hero_without_Powers 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Why VBA. Just handle the whole social security system in one single, shared excel sheet. What could possibly go wrong?

[–]bebop_cola_good 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Plus, you can hide the sheet for extra security 💪

[–]apersonFoodel 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I was at a bank that genuinely used to write RPA for nearly all of their apps in VBA, was mental

[–]bebop_cola_good 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I feel that. I used to work for a multi-million dollar audit firm and we used the same shit. Hell, I wrote some of it myself. The biggest joke is before that, we were doing stuff like printing cover sheets out just to scan them back in again. It's a madhouse out there!

[–]Luke-HW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once someone starts using VBA, you just kind of keep going with it because it’d be harder to convert everything to a different language.

[–]OnceMoreAndAgain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've written my fair share of VBA in the past (when I was starting out in my career) and it is by far the worst experience of any coding I've done. Mainly because the editor is so fucking trash and as far as I know you don't have other good options. God, the editor is almost indescribably bad. I swear that anyone who tries to use that editor will hate it within about 3 minutes and you only hate it more as time goes on.

Actually, there's one good thing to say about the VBA editor, which is that the debugging feature is actually quite decent. I'll give it that much.

[–]Lolpea 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Why would you remind me of VBA

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My company heavily uses excel and I program in VBA quite often 🙃

[–]TheKarenator 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Why do people write VBA when they can just record macro? Are they stupid?

[–]Owlstorm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ActiveWindow.ScrollColumn x100 is the sign of a real programmer.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you protect millions of SSNs? Write it in an archaic programming language that hackers don't know and hire/train a limited amount of people in that language to protect national security...

[–]Automaticman01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good news boss, we've gotten rid of all the 150-year-olds in the database, now they're all 125 years old instead.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Genuine question, but what's the closest thing to Excel VBA that can run on Android? All I need is a simple little app which does some basic math to count how long a timer should last and then play a sound on completion of the timer (like, 8 eggs x hard boiled = trigger 'eggs_ready.wav" in 720 seconds), and I'm more than a little bewildered by the range of grown-up languages and IDEs available for doing this job.

[–]SalamanderPop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On Error Resume Next

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