Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)
From: Leif Biberg Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 1, 2005 2:13:43 PM EDT To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.) Cameron Laird skrev: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a "standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be "safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, . . . This is clear evidence supporting the theory that being in charge of security and being able to think have no significant correlation. And, yes: +1 QOTW from me, too. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen I see it every day. The "hangers-on" have too much invested in the MS quagmire to consider anything else. It's a political thing, and yes yet another example of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." For example, a major financial institution offers their active trader application on Windows only, citing "security" considerations. Stamping the MS Office Suite and VBA a standard is reminiscent of HR department policy - of course you know what floats to the top in corporate (as well as government) ranks. QOTW? Only for lack of anything more original (no disrespect intended :~) Lee C "God save us from those that would save us" -- my grandmother c1945 PS: Though I stick with mostly Unix anymore, I do know there are "software engineers" valiantly employing Python (in their toolbag) in the MS environment. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)
Cameron Laird skrev: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . >>The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a >>"standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be >>"safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, > . > . > . This is clear evidence supporting the theory that being in charge of security and being able to think have no significant correlation. And, yes: +1 QOTW from me, too. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)
Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . > >The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a > >"standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be > >"safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, > . > . > . Obviously, this is a new usage of "safe" with which I have prviously been unaware. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a >"standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be >"safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, . . . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
