From: Chad Perrin Date: 2011-05-22T02:28:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Matz never said Microsoft was the Devil Incarnate. (or did he?) --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:28:26AM +0900, Will James wrote: >=20 > Yep, that's correct - I want the scripts to work across a variety of > platforms, with as little dependence on outside applications and > libraries as possible. This is partly because the scripts I'm writing > may be used by a few others; I don't know about what software they will > or won't have on their systems, and they will likely not be too willing > to resolve too many dependency issues. I do have office installed on one > of my systems, but don't have access to that one right now, and will not > buy another copy just for this task. =2E . . and frankly, you shouldn't have to explain why you're writing code for something like this, unless it's actually relevant to the problem you want help solving. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3X8u4ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVyVwCggtfCSJA2Igor9cDmxshUjhgD bi0An0IIUY8Ma3xb7bfD6CPUao4p4/2i =CgZW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--