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I am once again unsuccessfully advocating for engineers to not use Excel for any engineering purpose, especially not for NUCLEAR SAFETY-RELATED WORK. It will again fall on deaf ears; we don't have a suitable replacement for easily making publication-ready plots from CSV data, it's installed everywhere by default, and engineers are going to use it regardless of risks. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ms

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I'm trying to be a kinder, gentler engineering software version of Ignaz Semmelweis here but I expect to be ignored and eventually go mad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Se

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We spend obscene amounts of time and effort ensuring our safety-related design and analysis codes correctly perform the work we need to them to perform. I have been qualifying one (1) minor R code for over a year now. I'm not the only one. All that work thrown away because Excel and engineers.

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From Wikipedia: "In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later from a gangrenous wound on his right hand that may have been caused by the beating."

I know how this story ends.

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Note: As far as I know, engineers are using Excel for plotting, not core design, etc. The problem is that the plots are intended for inclusion in safety-related documentation reported to the regulator. I'm worried that an engineer may inadvertently reduce the precision in code output files. Or convert everything to a date...

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@arclight Everyone knows that the acceptable margin of error for any system is Apruary 31th.

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