begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:42:17PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:09:01PM > >-0700: > >[snip] > >>However, OpenOffice now seems to do almost everything I need ... > >> > >>Except histograms for grades ... Sigh. > >> > >>Will somebody *please* fix the stats package for OpenOffice? Please? > > > >Hm? Histograms for grades shouldn't be _THAT_ bad. > > It's not. I can do it. But the point is *why*?
I can only speculate. > This is *basic* stats. Every single Microsoft Office dweeb is likely to > use that function to generate a graph/chart. Yet it's missing. I see 'em writing VBScripts instead. :-/ The level of competence in the MSOffice world varies tremenously. > Worse, it *used* to work. They actually broke the API that the OOOStats > package used and then didn't fix it. That's bad. When did it work, and what was it called? I've only recently started using OOo, on account of their installation nonesense. Mostly just to read and/or edit MSWord documents that my employer insists on. > Microsoft initially took over the world because they *got* this. You I don't agree with your causality assessment, but I believe that they understood the lure of backwards compatibility, and used that understanding to good effect. > don't break things that work. Ever. Backward compatibility is > *important* to end users. I agree. I have gotten into arguments with agile programming advocates over this. Published APIs and library features shouldn't go away or break, or if they do, it should be rare and have a /really/ good reason. -- If you publish your API, you shouldn't change it without a damn good reason. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
