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> .2. Problems with Modern Spreadsheet Developments I'll bite. perhaps the problem with this guy's views are that they are true but so what? Spreadsheets are flexible and easy to use for people who cannot read or figure out how to use things. To say that learning to use awk, sed, and other unix tools is actually easier than spreadsheets is a little silly. Those utiltities are available under unix but not under windows without doing a fair amount of hunting, clicking, downloading. (think cygwin). You can immediately start typing into a spreadsheet after opening the program but you can't immediately do anything with awk, sed, grep. Even I use an iterative process when using those tools. I add one pipe at a time while tweaking options to get the format I want. the point is that he is complaining that spreadsheets are not really improving but the real question is 'Do spreadsheets need to improve?" It's like saying icons havent' improved since they were first used. so what? they work pretty well when used properly. They dont need improvement. This is not to justify misusing spreadsheets. They have thier uses and they are versatile but should not be the only tool in someone's bag of tricks. - -- JT Morée PC Xperience, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD9eHJucZ4lMT2d5IRAv+IAJ9N2JNTc4B9hWQIBchGOoyq76m8TwCff/iy +NxztSI5+MmX4MgXufCt7N8= =T1Ik -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
