Re: Writing to ms excel

On Aug 31, 12:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:

Only because we treat it as standard. You had no hesitation to write code
that relies on people having Excel installed, and yet you didn't want to
rely on an open source free software package that anyone with a fast
Internet connection or a CD drive can install in just a couple of
minutes. You don't even need to reboot the PC.

Consider that there are parallel universes to yours, where big brother
severely limits access to the Internet, where staff have to sign
rather draconian agreements about their use of the company facilities,
where desktops are scanned nightly for contraband (the finding of
which will cause the brownshirts to drop in for a quick game of hands-
knees-and-bump-your-exe), where even the mention of seditious material
like OpenOffice might result in a trip to the desert provinces for re-
education ... the cause is better advanced IMHO by staying under the
radar and crawling under the wire; tub-thumping soapbox-mounting
ranters however correct and righteous are likely to suffer a fate
similar to that of Michael Servetus.

Marin is allowed to use Python; he's doing very well compared to some.

They-scrubbed-all-programming-languages-off-the-production-machine-
that's-why-I-have-csv-routines-written-in-awk-ly yours,
John
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