Extend and Conquer

May 6th, 2008

GCN reports on Juergen Schmidt’s talk about using OpenOffice.org Extensions as an alternative to conventional macro languages. Macros have introduced many people to ‘computer programming’ – sometimes with disastrous results, for example when the office ‘macro expert’ quits the company, leaving a mass of incomprehensible code behind. Maybe extensions could be a better solution?