Thank you all very much for the feedback. I guess I have a lot to read
for the holidays now...
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Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated.
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Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com
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Is there an excel-hater's mailing list we could move this discussion
to. :)
ps - Is it possible to open the slime inspector on a stack frame or
frames?
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Or at least learn the difference between a spreadsheet and a database...
I see too many spreadsheets used as databases.
Neil Gilmore
ra...@raito.com
Quoting "Thomas M. Hermann" :
If people are going to rely on Excel to the extent that they do, I wish
they'd at least learn VBA.
_
If you have people making messy spreadsheets that are
hard to maintain, you might want to look at this. I have
not used it myself:
http://www.modelsheetsoft.com
But it's from Howard Cannon, Symbolics co-founder and
main inventor of Flavors, an ancestor of CLOS.
-- Dan
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9
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I am knee-deep daily in one of those communities. Time and time again, I
request that people send me the raw text files of data as opposed to poorly
importing them into an Excel spreadsheet. Or, I'll get some spreadsheet
"analysis" that contains brittle calculations that require lots of han
Speaking of XML, there's another good example of a special-purpose DSL,
designed for efficient processing of OSM map data, described here:
http://swizard.livejournal.com/142027.html (text in Russian).
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Didier Verna wrote:
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> Dear friends,
>
> I'm starting to wri
+1
May I also say that there are entire scientific, financial, and accounting
communities that should be barred from using Excel?
Cheers
--
MA
On Jul 22, 2011, at 09:14 , Daniel Pezely wrote:
> ...
> Lessons learned: (a few more while I'm here)
>
> 1. Know your audience, and build for t
On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Didier Verna wrote:
> Right now, I would like to know if any of you have DSL "pearls", nice
> examples of DSLs that you have written in Lisp by using some of its
> features in a clever or elegant way. I would also gladly accept any
> point of view or comment on what's
