[Edu-sig] Programming for the fun of it
Alan Gauld
agauld@crosswinds.net
Tue, 12 Dec 100 12:30:12 +0000
>> * Fix the software you use
>
>Only if it's Open Source :-)
We've already seen this stated but its not true.
Most software packages nowadays contain macro capability
and in the case of MS Office those macros are written in
a programming language - VBA. Thus knowledge of programming
frees the Office user of the restraints of the received
code and allow them to "fix it" in the sense of writing
their own versions of buggy features.
So no, Open Source, wonderful tho' it may be, is not the
only case where this topic applies. (And anyone who has
written any sreerious VBA code knows that it is most
definitely programming in the general sense! :)
Alan g.