On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:46:57 -0800, Chambers wrote:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Tim Cook escribió:
>>> Heck, I use version 7...even 8 was too bloatware for my taste.
>> 
>> http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar/psp5.png
>> 
>> I tried 8 or 9 and I was impressed at the amount of bloat.
> 
> I love the Unix philosophy of making specific, lightweight tools that
> interoperate, rather than gargantuan monolithic beasts that do
> everything rather poorly.

Ditto.  When I do data manipulation now in oocalc, I often parse the data 
first by piping it through a series of awk scripts and grep filters to 
get the data I'm interested in, *then* import it.

Makes it easier to aggregate the stuff I look at.

Jim

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