Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 12:07:50 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> I'd say that it's pretty much got feature parity (
>> Maybe for the features *you* use. I don't remember seeing how to get it
>> to talk COM to a SQL database so you can automate importing a chart from
>> Calc into Word based on a database query.
> 
> True, that's not something I've ever needed to use, but then again, I 
> probably wouldn't look to use a specific technology (COM) to accomplish 
> the task, largely because I wouldn't know where to start with COM.

That, and other cool stuff, like the fact that you can put it on a shared 
drive and have multiple people working on the same file without conflict. 
All kinds of "power" stuff that people who don't use it for a living do use.

Kind of like showing the boss a unit test framework integrated into the IDE 
and him going "Yeah, so? I have an editor and a compiler."  It's stuff you 
might not ever use unless your job is making and sharing these complex 
presentations with other people.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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