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Finance guys and gals have shells like R or Python.

Spreadsheets are GUIs for people who prefer that to shells.



Don't kid yourself, most finance guys still use Excel. Maybe a few younger ones in the valley use tools like R, Python, etc. but not in most places.


> Don't kid yourself, most finance guys still use Excel.

I didn't say anything about that.

You said spreadsheets are like shells for finance people. I was just pointing out that shells for finance people exist and that most prefer not to use them.




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