[ExI] ai class at stanford

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spreadsheets are fine for temporary/initial/interim solutions, but
> long term, they promote crazy spaghetti code, write-only code. It's
> un-analyzable, un-maintainable.

Agreed.  Problem is, if you have a decade-plus of code in spreadsheets,
it can be really hard (nearly impossible) to make the case to management
that it's time to spend a lot of not-immediately-productive time porting it
to something better - especially if, as in Spike's case, they are
personally invested in the spreadsheets.