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• Not bad form (Score:3, Interesting)

  by jdavidb (1361) on 2002.05.29 9:36 (#8896) Homepage Journal

  In fact, it's par for the course. I can say that, because I did it, too. :)

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• VBA library of Perlish functions (list utilities) (Score:1)

  by osfameron (3135)

  At this rate, I might make VBA almost usable, though I doubt it as there are so many deficiencies in this braindead language, so many things that it's designed not to be able to do...

  I've created a VBA module with a number of Perllike list utilities - makeList, makeHash, split, join, push, pop, shift etc.. I was going to post the module for your interest, (if you're using VBA, or just want to laugh at the tortuous syntax) but I got this use.perl error:

  Lameness filter encountered.
  Your comment violate

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  osfameron
• language mottoes... (Score:1)

  by jweveland (1446)

  Your closing got me to thinking... so far we have:

  • perl - Makes easy things easy and hard things possible
  • VBA - Makes hard things easy and easy things hard to impossible

  And the following, avaliable for assignment:

  • Makes easy things hard, and hard things impossible
  • Makes easy things impossible, and hard things unthinkable
  • Makes easy things require 367 .dll files, 6 reboots, and a bluescreen every 5 minutes thereafter
  • Makes "Hello, world" into a 40 line program
  • Makes strings into integers, four per byte (