alt Hacker NewsFrom 2020: "Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385)
From 2020: "Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385)
Exactly. They couldn't really change it even if they wanted to. The implementation with all of its warts and quirks is now the standard.