On 2003-03-07, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Beni Cherniavsky, from the post of Fri, 07 Mar: > > > all very nice and valid points, but why would you want to look at a > > > spreadsheet as a programming language, when it was never meant to be one > > > or replace it? > > > > > Well, because my mother has to use "applications" for insurance > > computation that are implemented in Excel and quite badly. They are > > so because you saw the failed attempt of a bad programmer using the > wrong tool to force Excell into submission as proof that the entire > concept of spreadsheets is basically wrong? > I saw a lot of these :-)...
> talk about over-reaction... Guilty as charged. But my rant was not intended as a complaint against spreadsheets in general, only against the attempts to use them for big programming projects. Probably I got a little carried... > > > but A programming language it ain't. never meant to be. hence the need > > > to enhance it with VB and form macro generators. > > > > > Agreed. However, it could be enhanced in much better ways, to > > actually create something that is a reasonable tool for creating big > > applications. > > then go ahead and donate those ideas to OpenOffice, gnumeric or Kspread. > at the moment I don't see why there's a base for complaints. it's like > saying HTML is a bad programming language (it's a markup language) or my > car is a bad elevator (it only goes up 15 centimeters and stops, and > then the ride is bad). you get the point. > True point. But it doesn't currently scratch any itch badly enough to invest time into it. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm too lazy to use GUI - why should I click all these things to get my job done? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
