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I worked on an Excel\vba swat team at an investment bank. Whenever someone in the various business units got themselves into more trouble than they could handle with an Excel model, we'd try to set things right. We saw a lot of wonderfully creative vba code from industrious programming beginners (or, as we liked to call them, "Macro Recording Cowboys". The most amusing I saw was a model where the vba code used a Greek mythology variable naming convention:

Dim Hermes As String, Artemis As Long, Odin As Range



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