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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 224 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (33 children)

As a software developer, the less ambiguous your notation is, the better it is for everyone involved. Not only will I use brackets, I'll split my expression into multiple rows and use tabs to make it as readable as humanly possible. And maybe throw a comment or 2 if there's still some black magic involved

[–] Mikufan@ani.social 81 points 7 months ago (16 children)

No just write the entire code in one line totally perfect.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

For real though, I have written some truly monstrous operations in Excel.

What do you mean you want to use Excel to manage everyone’s calendars? And now you want to export that horribly built calendar management spreadsheet to Google Calendar? What do you mean you want the Google Calendar entries automatically formatted based on who is working on a particular day? I mean yes it’s possible but-…

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

VBA has made things so, so much easier since I started learning how to use it.

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