Re: ODF spreadsheets

[Muthiah Annamalai]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 23/01/2008, Muthiah Annamalai <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > kensmith wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thursday 17 January 2008 12:39, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > On 17/01/2008, Mats Hedlund <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > > > Is there any work being done for import/export to ODF spreadsheets?
> > > > >           
> [snip]
>   
> > For anyone interested in doing this work, a good starting point would be
> > look at
> > Gnumeric / Gnome-spreadsheet's OO.o export facilities, and rewrite the
> > same into
> > an OCT file.
> >     
>
> So this would require Octave to recognise a new Spreadsheet data
> type... cell arrays or numeric matrices don't seem like they would fit
> spreadsheets in them.
>
> On second thought, if you really want to represent all the data of a
> spreadsheet in Octave, this seems like a nontrivial task.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
>
>   
There is a school of thought that says spreadsheets are functional 
programming languages.
Well, we have Octave and can abstract this. But rudimentary data I/O 
from Octave
to whatever spreadseet must be the first goal that most people care about.
Feature kill is not required, IMHO.
-Muthu