Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: Will James Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Matz never said Microsoft was the Devil Incarnate. (or did he?) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:45:57 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <267f0e6b73bdfa961dbda489c97c181d@ruby-forum.com> <3f9811841b309bc9010c0a84ed85bf8b@ruby-forum.com> <2429f4a7-c967-4a64-8637-ed75f4e5a313@q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <03bd9fccf3fedba427f3c8295203e426@ruby-forum.com> <20110521171422.GA14414@guilt.hydra> <20110522200252.GA18987@guilt.hydra> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1306255583 74153 65.111.164.187 (24 May 2011 16:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:46:23 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: 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: 383705 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:4999 Damjan Rems wrote in post #1000470: > Just my 5 cents. What do you need formulas for. Is your data going to be > changed by hand in the future? > > If not, why not calculate it by your program. > > by > TheR I thought about doing it this way, but the spreadsheet will have calculations based on previous calculations, based on previous calculations, and so on, so it's good to have the formulas in there, in part so that whoever is viewing the formulas can follow the process of how something is derived (without too much effort), and so that the viewer can verify that nothing went wrong anywhere in the process of deriving the final values. Basically, the formulas are good for transparency, in this case. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.