Beginner needs advice

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Tue May 31 14:29:14 EDT 2011


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  If you disagree, then I invite you to list one example of two
>> different things that are compatible.
>>
>
> Men and women.

This is a slightly different sense of the word compatible than we have
been discussing: able to work together to perform a function, not
interchangeable.

> MS Office and Open Office.

Nope.  Remember, the assertion by harrismh777 was that "all you have
to do to prove incompatibility is to show 'one' (1) test case where
compatibility fails".  As one example, any Calc document that uses the
EASTERSUNDAY function will fail in Excel, since Excel does not provide
it.  I could easily come up with other examples (let's not even get
into the differences in macros), but one is all I need.

> IE6 and HTML.

:-)



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