From: Will James Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Matz never said Microsoft was the Devil Incarnate. (or did he?) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 21:28:26 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 37 Message-ID: <03bd9fccf3fedba427f3c8295203e426@ruby-forum.com> References: <267f0e6b73bdfa961dbda489c97c181d@ruby-forum.com> <3f9811841b309bc9010c0a84ed85bf8b@ruby-forum.com> <2429f4a7-c967-4a64-8637-ed75f4e5a313@q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1305944930 57008 65.111.164.187 (21 May 2011 02:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 02:28:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <2429f4a7-c967-4a64-8637-ed75f4e5a313@q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 383552 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <03bd9fccf3fedba427f3c8295203e426@ruby-forum.com> Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:4847 Daniel Berger wrote in post #999984: > On May 20, 3:36pm, Mike Stephens wrote: >> Will >> >> I'm still fascinated why you are doing sophisticated things with Excel >> (not Open Office) but steadfastly refuse to load it on your computer. >> Windows and Excel can be purchased for the price of a monitor. You gain >> ownership of software that costs hundreds and hundreds of millions to >> develop. >> >> Why fanny around with some Micky Mouse spreadsheet gem when you can have >> the Full Monty? > > Even if he had it installed locally, I'm guessing that he would want > to generate the document in code since generating it by hand would be > cumbersome. In addition, the spreadsheet gem works on any platform > (last I checked). > > Regards, > > Dan Yep, that's correct - I want the scripts to work across a variety of platforms, with as little dependence on outside applications and libraries as possible. This is partly because the scripts I'm writing may be used by a few others; I don't know about what software they will or won't have on their systems, and they will likely not be too willing to resolve too many dependency issues. I do have office installed on one of my systems, but don't have access to that one right now, and will not buy another copy just for this task. The spreadsheet gem meets the above requirements, and it was working brilliantly until I got to writing formulas to spreadsheets. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.