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0 pointsThrowawayR21y ago0 comments

Not quite the same thing but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging comes close.

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It's not even in the same ballpark. With excel, you are inspecting _the output_ for a specific run. There is no equivalent in modern programming.

MichaelZuo1y ago

In this case even getting 99.99% of the way there is still practically worthless, as someone will be interacting with Excel millions of times throughout a career.

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foobiekr1y ago

It's not even in the same ballpark. With excel, you are inspecting _the output_ for a specific run. There is no equivalent in modern programming.

MichaelZuo1y ago

In this case even getting 99.99% of the way there is still practically worthless, as someone will be interacting with Excel millions of times throughout a career.

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