On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:19:24PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
Hi dev,
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 23:33:36 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/192250tid=93
Thanks for the pointer.
And for those who are interested, here is what came to my mind
Jody Goldberg wrote:
What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is
to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the
standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS
Excel. Given the complexity and prevalence of it's evaluation
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:33:44PM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote:
Jody Goldberg wrote:
What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is
to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the
standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS
Hi Jody,
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 14:04:59 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is
to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the
standard.
This is also what I assumed. Which left me even more puzzled why the
Hi Jody, Niklas, and Eike,
On 9/22/05, Jody Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The time varying nature of MS Excel does have the potential for
problems in the future. However, Microsoft is even more strongly
bound by the chains of backwards compatibility than we are. I
suspect that the