Hi, if you drop Basic as a makro language in writer, you will drop me as a makro user, and maybe even as a LO user.
It gives me the freedom to automatize much of my daily tasks without learning another high level language. And when I want to use GNU/Linux system functions I use extensiveley the shell comand, i.e. dir() is quite slow, but calling a shell script with an elaborate find command does the task very quick. or: use sed to run through the odt's looking up the print date or ... Maybe it might helt with /dev/.. too. Walther Although sometimes Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2012 schrieb Tom Davies: > Hi :) > What are 'the best' languages to choose? Python and/or C++? or something > else? > > I know 'the best' is a bit subject to personal feelings and knowledge and > experience but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions. From > what i can gather Python and C++ are teh best although mainstream seems to > rate Java more highly and it appears in job ads more often. On the other > hand when jobs ask for C++ the pay-grade is far higher. I got as far as > Speccy Basic, a little pascal and some machine code but i think that's all > soooo far behind me that i doubt i could write much even in those languages > now (&machine code was a tfn and only ever worked on the specific machine i > wrote for (at best)). Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Mon, 15/10/12, Andreas Säger <ville...@t-online.de> wrote: > > From: Andreas Säger <ville...@t-online.de> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system > files, like /dev/null in Linux To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 7:17 > > Am 14.10.2012 21:08, chaonis wrote: > > I am trying to write scripts accessing the system files, such as > > /dev/ttyS0. If I use "Open" I got the error "Device I/O error" message. > > Are there any special function call needed to be done for the system > > files? User permission is good as I can access to the file using any > > other Linux commands. > > You have so many programming languages availlable. Why StarBasic? > StarBasic is the most primitive API-caller. It is almost useless for > anything outside the UNO scope. (Apart from that, it is the worst > implementation of an extinct language). > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
