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anthkyesterday at 2:55 PM0 repliesview on HN

Tell that to middle bosses and CEOs and MS Office VBA bootlickers and Excel workshippers.

Meanwhile, CSV files parsed with custom reviewed AWK scripts can be 100% safe with charts made from Gnuplot. Heck, even some notebook like Ipython with a CSV module would be far more desirable than a spreadsheet. Any of them. Just look at the Genomics Disaster on Excel because of shitty parsing.