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Re: Request for computer help.
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2005 Sep 7, 14:27 +0300
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2005 Sep 7, 14:27 +0300
George, Thank you for posing this question. It is really interesting to read all the suggestions you receive. I wish you that you choose out of all what has been mentioned the right one. An other aspect which might be important for you: By selecting a popular programming language you might have higher chance of finding ready available source codes in the Internet. If this aspect is not so important, I actually have yet an other proposition for you. Do you remember Ashton Tate's Framework? May be you used it at work until about 10 years ago. Yes, it is this spread sheed program which existed before Excel. Framework had FRED as a programming language implemented, which - to my understanding - was much more useful than VBA with Excel. At a time I used it for a lot of number crunching. It also had either ready available plot features or plots could be programmed. Framework had e.g. the possibility to put a complete program (not just a formula) into one cell of the spreadsheet. Unfortunately Framework "died" after Ashton Tate gave it up. Not many know that in the meantime it is redux! Have a look here http://www.framework.com/ A the time the program was well documented in a printed manual (two folders) . I can imagine that one could even find copies of them. This new version is however not cheap. When I asked a few years ago the price was somewhere around 400US$. That was to much for what I wanted it. May be they changed the price in the meantime. Marcel