mostly they don't have any idea what formal software is, nor any understanding of the tradeoffs between correct specifications, testing, and ongoing maintenance
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I'm unfamiliar with the term "formal software" myself. Does this wikipedia article on "Formal Methods" describe what you both mean by it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods … If not, can you define?
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Domain expertise beats software engineering in most situations. Excel lets domain experts wing it and get stuff done.
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This is so underrated. I started as a domain expert and outperformed our software team with Excel. Then I taught myself to code and wrote absolute garbage code that lasted for years because it was so accurate to the domain's needs.
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...and your explanation of the phenomenon?
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People close to the business (making $$) are not engineers, and excel is very difficult to beat in those environments. If most of your money making people are not engineers, you don’t want to optimize for formal systems.
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A friend of mine completely revamped the way a huge paper manufacturing company worked by automating and creating several new reports using the power of excel Visual Basic for Applications. He wasn't even a professional programmer, more of a hobbyist.
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I am currently working in the Machining business (think cutting metal pieces using "robot" arms with drills), the software they use is soooooo bad. Almost all of them are windows desktop only or especialized microcontroller software from the 80s
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How much of this is limited because of the concept of trade secrets? Arbitrary founder is unlikely to see these spreadsheets/process directly. Surely there is some reason these supposedly inefficient methods have not been improved yet.
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