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[โ€“] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

I hope they kill off VBA too. I still see some teams in banks implementing Monte Carlo simulators or PDE solvers in straight VBA ๐Ÿคข

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel. Removing VBA would cause global economic ruin. I'm pretty sure that's the unspoken backstory for the Fallout series.

[โ€“] Melkath@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

My job is literally to keep a NASDAQ company afloat on process automation written mostly in VBA to make up for the sweeping layoffs that were made to keep the CEOs bonuses fat...

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