* Re: Ada and OpenOffice/LibreOffice macros
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@ 2012-07-15 10:46 ` Brian Drummond
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From: Brian Drummond @ 2012-07-15 10:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:06:41 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:15:32 -0700 (PDT), arka <arkavae@gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
>> Hi,
>> I would like to use Ada as macro-language for OpenOffice or LibreOffice
>> . Somebody have clues how to find revelent information about this ?
>
> Not easily, I suspect.
>
> Most "macro languages" for office suites are of the interpreted
> style (VBA, REXX, Python, etc.).
>
> Ada requires a full compilation/linkage phase to produce a
> stand-alone executable (or, with advanced options, a dynamically
> linkable library).
However, there is the Ada-based scripting language formerly known as BUSH
http://pegasoft.ca/sparforte.html
which claims to be a replacement for Python, Ruby, Perl etc...
How feasible it is to integrate it as a macro language for LibreOffice is
another matter.
- Brian
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