{"id":175756,"date":"2020-12-07T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/07\/we-live-in-hell\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T00:02:00","slug":"we-live-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/07\/we-live-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"We Live in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  According to Microsoft\u00ae,   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/12\/04\/microsoft_excel_lambda\/\">Microsoft Excel\u00ae is the most used programming in the world<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  This almost makes me feel grateful that I had to write bbCodeWebEx in   JavaScript. (<i>Almost<\/i>) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Microsoft will let users create custom functions in Excel using the number wrangler&#8217;s own formula language. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excel formulas are <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">the   world&#8217;s most widely used programming language<\/span><\/b>, yet one of the more basic principles in programming has been missing, and that is the ability to use the formula language to define your own re-usable functions,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/excel-blog\/announcing-lambda-turn-excel-formulas-into-custom-functions\/ba-p\/1925546\">Microsoft<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, make it stop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft\u00ae, Microsoft Excel\u00ae is the most used programming in the world.&nbsp; This almost makes me feel grateful that I had to write bbCodeWebEx in JavaScript. (Almost) Microsoft will let users create custom functions in Excel using the number wrangler&#8217;s own formula language. &#8220;Excel formulas are the world&#8217;s most widely used programming language, yet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[395,364,382],"class_list":["post-175756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computer","tag-evil","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}