OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet - eviltoast
“This is an idiotic way to do navigation.”
  • Pistcow@lemm.ee
    23·
    2 months ago

    Worked for multiple Fortune 500s, the world is held together by Cobol and Excel. If Excel were to stop working, the world would collapse.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      14·
      2 months ago

      I worked for a major investment bank and one of their exotics trading teams was basically all add-ons and stuff built on top of Excel.

      To be fair, the traders looked like Wizards using it, it was pretty neat.