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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada package registry?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> BTW, the whole idea of exporting something (data) into something (Excel) 
> shows bogus design. Why cannot the end data consumer access data directly?

They can, but a tool like Excel can provide capabilties not present in the 
original system without retooling. I use it, for instance, to make pretty 
charts out of Ada data -- not wanting to create some charting mechanism nor 
a PDF writer. (I note that libraries for both of those things exist for Ada, 
so maybe I ought to rethink that down the road.) Excel is also great for 
playing with data to find out things that you didn't previously know 
(sorting and formulas can easily be applied). Ada will never be good for 
exploratory tasks.

                                         Randy.