Hi :)
No-one is suggesting dropping Star Basic! That would be a huge nightmare for
many people i'm sure.
I was just curious what might be better. A quick look at what languages can be
used for macros in LO reveals 4 choices; LO Basic, Python, BeanShell, or
JavaScript. I was just wondering which was 'best'. Are all 4 really well
implemented in LO? I guess LO Basic is the Star Basic being referred to in
this thread?
I think Andreas was just suggesting that choosing to use Star Basic is not the
best choice. However one of the great things about OpenSource is that you do
get choices. We can all disagree about almost everything and still end up
co-operating with each other even if we didn't want to.
Outside of IT choice is usually seen as a good thing. Many countries see
democracy as good and ostensibly give a choice of who you can vote for to
rule. In shops people would be outraged if there was nothing else to buy
except baked beans. People expect to be able to buy a wide range of diferent
products from different companies and for it all to work together well enough.
Somehow IT seems to demand dictatorships and freedom FROM choice rather than
freedom OF choice. We don't all do the same things and even if we did we
probably wouldn't do them the same way so it's fairly insane to expect 1
product and 1 company to be the only thing worth using.
I was just curious about other people's choices to help me understand more
about a subject i know little about.
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 11:43
Subject: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write
system files, like /dev/null in Linux
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC script how to read/write system
files, like /dev/null in Linux
Date: Montag, 15. Oktober 2012
From: Walther Koehler w.koeh...@onlinemed.de
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
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
s 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).
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