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Similarly Microsoft Access. I learned Access for my first job (100% of my job was moving tasks into Access, 3 years later I helped some interns transition to a SQL server+web application). 10 years later I'm still using Access for some aspects of my new job. The ability to quickly prototype something and receive almost immediate value is vastly underestimated (I know of one company which runs all of their tasks out of Access).



I suppose what I've described is just a little more of an unstructured version of this. Mixing data and computation in such a way is definitely a tech debt tradeoff though.




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