On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:09:07AM +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
"Schwab,Wilhelm K" <[email protected]> writes:
And let's be honest a second time. MS-Office is the Standard by any
means. Yes there is LaTex and yes there is OpenOffice but sorry if
anyone talks about Office Software they mean MS-Office. And we have to
admit that the MS-Office tools are extremly useful, especially Excel is
quite good at that spreadsheets can do ;-)
I don't think there is some one who is not honest in this topic.
M$-Office is *popular* doesn't mean that it's the standard. Talking
about office suite doesn't imply that it's the office suite from M$,
except for the situation that you were grown in a M$'s dominated
education system. What feature makes OpenOffice.org not useful? Except
for just not being able to perfectly handle M$'s proprietary format?
Have you ever used OpenOffice.org Calc for your own sake?
OpenOffice has some type of (Java??) scripting interface. That might
be a little better and perhaps even friendlier than MS' offerings and
might then be induced to create .xls files.
Well VBA and Excel is well working, I doubt that OpenOffice Basic can
compete with it.
Oh, I didn't know that OpenOffice.org Basic is a spreadsheet software.
I doubt I've ever heard of its name as an spreadsheet application. M$
Excel just works with its own closed source VBA version, my
OpenOffice.org Calc works with VBA, Python, and Java scripting
languages. I've never spent a lot of time writing and maintaining
source code with Python as with VB. What makes it not a good competitor
to M$ Excel?
Best regards,
--
Yang Nguyen
Life is a hack
_______________________________________________
Pharo-project mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
