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ah, and the real world meet language flame war.

both of these codes are awful imo. but real world code always is, so that's not a valid critic.

usually when code pass over errors they are just ignoring design holes and offloading the work to fix the design to the end user, but that's also how real world programs are architected every day.

in the end: great, and bave article, to show how the languages du jour elegant syntax sugars added with formalism and other academic dreams in mind will be bent over backwards to just-get-shit-done in a needlessly complex method that tries to do everything with whatever data structure the underlying library (excell in this case) decided to presented the data instead of the better one for the method logic.