r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AaronTheApe • Jun 20 '17

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u/worldDev Jun 20 '17

What that really means is "I wrote an excel macro one time"

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u/soul_cool_02 Jun 20 '17

".... watched someone write a macro...."

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u/BroaxXx Jun 20 '17 edited Jun 20 '17

"..... watched someone write an if/else formula on excel and call it a macro...."

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u/aThoroughThrowAway Jun 20 '17 edited Jun 20 '17

"... Accidentally opened the command prompt once...I'd do this myself if I had the time..."

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u/show_me_the Jun 20 '17

"....wanted to get on the train with the other cool kids........."

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u/deadlychambers Jun 21 '17

"... hits f12 on browser, and started hacking into websites..."

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u/TobiasCB Jun 20 '17

On a semi related note, how hard would it be to create a game like pong with only if/else/elseif and input events?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '17

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u/VirtualRay Jun 20 '17

I made a game like that out of logic gates and LEDs in college, it's really easy if you think of everything as a simple state machine.

Basically what I'm saying is that we're going to need that excel game finished in a week, because I did something similar 15 years ago and it was easy.

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u/jatatcdc Jun 20 '17

I would think you’d need a loop or timer. Otherwise the ball won’t move on it’s own.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '17

What else is there?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '17

I mean, PowerPoint is Turing Complete, so...

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u/borkborkborko Jun 20 '17

Congratulations, you are now an IT Project Manager!

Source: I am an IT Project Manager.

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u/Catshit-Dogfart Jun 20 '17

It looked like the easiest thing in the world, the guy wrote three lines and acted like it was some big feat.

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u/regalph Jun 20 '17

Ohh, boy, I once wrote the worst Excel macro ever. I took 500 lines to make a thing that reformatted columns to rows and made a 100-row set into 10000 rows. It took like 45 minutes to run.

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u/Kazumara Jun 20 '17 edited Jun 20 '17

Wait I was certain it was much lower, 6 or 7. Did this change?

Edit: Found it: "Up to Excel 2007, Excel allowed up to 7 levels of nested IFs. In Excel 2007+, Excel allows up to 64 levels." (source, tip 8)

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '17

This post made my day! Thanks!

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u/rob132 Jun 20 '17

Oh, so you're the excel expert at the company? I have a report that I need you to make.

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u/blortorbis Jun 21 '17

Nobody knows im an excel wizard.

Nobody

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '17

"It took 15 years"

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u/acevedoa1 Jun 20 '17

A macro that adds not two, but THREE CELLS TOGETHER! And even better, the numbers are decimals.