Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <7wfvusy36r.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1375452011 21251 64.122.56.22 (2 Aug 2013 14:00:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:00:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51812 On 2013-08-02, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ben Finney wrote: >> Chris Angelico writes: >> >>> [?] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far >>> as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.) >> >> That's simply false. ... >> >> Claiming they're the same product is ignoring the transfer of >> development away from the OpenOffice.org code dump, and to LibreOffice >> as the actively-developed product. > > To be sure, they're different; but they're part of one family tree. > It's like referring to "Debian/Ubuntu" when you're discussing > something where it makes absolutely zero difference which one you're > talking about. The difference between using LibreOffice and using > OpenOffice is nothing compared to the difference between working with > either of the above and putting a literal in your code. In the context in which I mentioned LibreOffice, I don't even consider there to be a significant difference between Libre/OO and Excel. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Those people look at exactly like Donnie and gmail.com Marie Osmond!!