Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true

On 03/01/2012 05:06 PM, e-letter wrote:
> On 29/02/2012, Dan Lewis<elderdanlewis@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:01 -0500, drew jensen wrote:
> >       What would most people who are new to Base think after reading the
> > negative comments about Base? Statements about how hard it is to learn
> > (comparing learning at least some of it to the difficulty of learning a
> > new language). No one seems to be able to give references that would
> > help. (No one has so far.)
> In previous other posts, there have been references to good OO
> tutorial documents about base.

I created a frequently downloaded document that demonstrates numerous 
Macro methods using Base.

> >       Recently there was a long thread that began with a problem with a
> > large spreadsheet. One of the early comments was that the data should
> > have been in a database. Now, it appears that that comment should have
> > been: you should be using a database but don't use Base. Strange very
> > little help was give as to how Calc could be used. So, it sounds like to
> > me that the advice seems to be: limit your use of Calc and DON'T USE
> > Base.
> What is wrong with telling someone not to use base??? The purpose of
> free software is freedom to use other tools; noone said it had to be a
> traditional office software product. I remember being advised by OO
> users to use R for statistics; it was the appropriate advice at the
> time.

Note that I did not advise against it, I merely stated why I don't use 
it much anymore.


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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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