From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada and OpenOffice/LibreOffice macros
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:46:16 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2012-07-15T10:46:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jtu71o$i71$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9ku308dv9sgqq8rvrs1s0mrnc4p5mkft2l@invalid.netcom.com
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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