Re: [LUG] Excel mangles genes draft letter

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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John Daragon wrote:
| On Monday 19 July 2004 21:32, Adrian Midgley wrote:
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|>Wadda you think?
|
| I wouldn't if I were you.
|
| This just demonstrates that one utility is better at doing something
it wasn't
| designed to do than another.

Actually it demonstrates only;

Some "power" Excel users don't know how to use it (make of this what you
will).

It doesn't demonstrate Gnumeric is better, unless you have repeated the
analysis they performed and found it faster/more accurate/easier to
use/other criteria (less likely to foul up is probably appropriate one
to add).

| What do they expect if they try to make a spreadsheet work like a
database ?

There is the cynical view that inside every spreadsheet is a database
application trying to escape ;)

We could subsidy their purchase of a copy of "Beginning Perl for
Bioinformatics."
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