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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada and OpenOffice/LibreOffice macros
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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