Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software Date: 31 Dec 2024 19:25:06 GMT Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <9OCcnRW7grqkbPT6nZ2dnZfqnPUAAAAA@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oZHo9p3/0cBEP3i+6E/1Bw7KH1+x5HnLMTPXdCgHHQqeIp5Pyl Cancel-Lock: sha1:3HI9nd4VjfrvrPJa97uQ8HIw8Io= sha256:9izw9tf6U7eeEBxdLdNyC4kLccKloatuxOTDx8cLcDQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:681908 On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:18:09 -0500, DFS wrote: > On 12/30/2024 7:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:58:06 -0500, DFS wrote: >> >>> If you ever do need to automate office software or build custom >>> applications, you'll find that MS Office and VBA is extremely superior >>> to ALL other office software. >> >> Unfortunately, no. > > You have NO idea what you're talking about. > > > > Even Microsoft realizes that VBA is crap, which is why it is offering > > Python access to Excel users -- at a cost, of course. > > Python can't come close to replacing VBA (and vice versa of course). Esri did a good job of replacing VBA. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-desktop/3d-gis/arcgis- desktop-and-vba-moving-forward/?rmedium=redirect&rsource=blogs.esri.com/ esri/arcgis/2016/11/14/arcgis-desktop-and-vba-moving-forward They had their own scripting language, Avenue, and switched to VBA over 20 years ago, https://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall02articles/new-tool.html For a while VBA and Python coexisted, but VBA was phased out. Enjoy living in the past.