Re: RE: it's been a while

Posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on Jan 27, 2002; 5:14pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/RE-it-s-been-a-while-tp1852p1856.html

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:57:57AM -0500, Bernd Johannes Wuebben wrote:
[ snipping long paragraph on real world demands I tend to agree with]

> head-aches that come with figuring out how to build excel interfaces
> anymore as all your prayers have come true with:
>
> http://www.ifrance.com/xlw/

That URL times out a lot for me. Google has it cached, though.

> feel more adventurous, check consider building a COM server object
> (requiring Excel 2002) which allows you to beautifully pump data into

As a Unix user, I'd feel left behind. Wasn't there a loose consensus to drop
both Corba and COM and go with, say, SOAP, despite the performance hit.
Anyway, that's quite some way off.

Dirk

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