@nixCraft because technically you can use any modern spreadsheet program to perform the same functions as a personal database (eg. filtering tables, generating reports, organising data, searching for records, etc)
It's a good thing that people don't have to learn Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base to do that imho. 🙂
This idea that using spreadsheets as a database is a "noob" thing to do probably should have went away about 10-15 years ago.
@nixCraft The User Interface of Excel is pretty much like CLI: extremely flexible and versatile, excellent for building ad-hoc tools. That's hard to beat! The only serious alternative product that is not a full blown database requiring an army of developers to build a freaking form is Filemaker.
@nixCraft I see no problem there, but most people treat Excel as Word with tables. Actually only a fraction utilize some functions that also a DB would offer.
@nixCraft because they need to get things done in an office environment without involving an external contractor or the IT department, which in turn is unfamiliar with or doesn't care about the task at hand and adds overhead that you can get away with.
It's the most popular functional programming environment for a reason — and people who use it don't even know it's programming!
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