Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: > On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 8:38:49 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> We are talking about GUI tools to produce what? Crap? > > You (seem to) be saying that excel is crap. > Do you know it well enough to make that judgement? > Do you have equivalent functionality in some other tool?
Well, now you mention it, I have a third anecdote. For years I was the treasurer of a soccer team. My predecessors had used Excel for the purpose, with varying success. The accounting software I chose for the job was -- Python. I entered the transactions in Python and had the main program output all the needed reports: Excel, HTML, email. I believe it would have been a nightmare to do it any other way. As for Excel being crap, I have seen admirable, heroic, colossal efforts put in a lot of GUI apps (web or otherwise) but the results still coming short: Excel, Atlassian, Eclipse. Thing is, I wonder if the whole GUI paradigm is only suitable for very simple, naive things. An exception to that comment would be games. They really are often awe-inspiring achievements. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
