The Dijkstran wheel of fortune: SPSS, Excel, VBA
Read OriginalThe author, a programmer with experience in many languages, recounts using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate post-processing of SPSS statistical analysis output in Excel. The article explores the practical reasons for choosing VBA as the right tool for the job, while critically examining the language's limitations and frustrating features compared to modern programming languages.
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