On Fri, 29 May 2009, Morten Kromberg wrote:
> Well, "bundled" is a strong word - we don't require any of these
> things to be present - but of course you cannot drive Excel unless

J can read/write excel files without excel for years.  Dyalog also can
but apparently no one yet have interest because it's too trivial to
use com/.net to do the job.  The trap is you must use window and buy
the license for excel.  Incidentally Ric Sherlock has written an J
addon that can read excel 2007 xlsx (compressed xml), it works both
under linux and window, and does not need excel.

The appropriate quotation will be "Don't bite the hook".

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