Re: But Jaybawb!

Some years back I taught a modeling course at a local university. To show how far back this was, the computer available to us was a PDP-11. There were just four students in the class. One wrote his programs in Pascal, one wrote his programs in BASIC, and one wrote his programs in FORTRAN. The fourth student, who happened to be a business student, had done A work in courses teaching Pascal, FORTRAN, and BASIC, but COBOL was the only language she was comfortable in. I explained that our version of COBOL did not have any of the trig functions, and she would need those, but she would not be moved, so I yielded ... and I spent an evening emulating floating-point (our COBOL didn't have that either) and then writing the needed trig functions. I don't remember the details now, but the FORTRAN program would finish in maybe 5 minutes, the Pascal in 10 minutes, and the BASIC might take 30 minutes, all during open lab time when others were also using the PDP-11. She would run her program overnight, so most of the time it had the computer all to itself, and it would still take something like 12 hours to run. Ultimately, she remained the perfect A student, and her results were at least as good as what anyone else got.
Yes, you can use inappropriate technology to solve a problem, and if Mateo wants to use a spreadsheet to keep his records, he has every right to do that. Presumably he has alot of pictures ... otherwise he wouldn't bother to automate it ... and a spreadsheet becomes unwieldy as the number of rows becomes large. A database would be a better solution ... but as my wife sometimes says to me "It's your hobby, and its meant to be fun, so ignore me if you feel like it".