Re: Scripting in Gnome



On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:

> > VBA is needed anyhow for things like Gnumeric if they want to achieve
> > compatibility with Excel
>
> There have been a number of attempts to clone VB.  All of which have not
> taken off.  If you want to look to compatibility I would look to Mono.
> VB might be different but by the time you had a VBA clone Excel will
> have transfered completely to VB.Net.

While I do agree with you on most of what you said, this won't make old
documents go away. So you're saying we should only be able to have
scripting for the latest version of office documents (not even opening
up the can of worms that VBA scripts open wrt sceurity)?

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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