Comment Re:But its forebears were worse! (Score 1) 1078
I know what you mean.
My first "real" job was doing excel macro language. (late 92)
You had gotos that were cells.
so you would say:
=goto(b1) (and it would go to b1 on the macro sheet).
you could do something like a dialog box on the screen and it took data across 7 columns to make the thing.
I ended up with a 300K macro, with dialog boxes etc.
And then they decided they didnt need it.
The thing that was really irritating was that you had to do relative moves:
like to move the cursor down on the active pane was something like =select(r[0]c[0]:r[0]c[0],RC[1])
You could also do selections etc.
Quite interesting stuff, but frustrating as hell trying to debug. All there was was a step/iterate function.
But even though I never messed with VB macros (in excel 5 and up), I am glad something came to replace the old macro language.
At least they kept me on as the networking person, and then I had an AS400, novell, PCs,macs and a phone system to support.
My first "real" job was doing excel macro language. (late 92)
You had gotos that were cells.
so you would say:
=goto(b1) (and it would go to b1 on the macro sheet).
you could do something like a dialog box on the screen and it took data across 7 columns to make the thing.
I ended up with a 300K macro, with dialog boxes etc.
And then they decided they didnt need it.
The thing that was really irritating was that you had to do relative moves:
like to move the cursor down on the active pane was something like =select(r[0]c[0]:r[0]c[0],RC[1])
You could also do selections etc.
Quite interesting stuff, but frustrating as hell trying to debug. All there was was a step/iterate function.
But even though I never messed with VB macros (in excel 5 and up), I am glad something came to replace the old macro language.
At least they kept me on as the networking person, and then I had an AS400, novell, PCs,macs and a phone system to support.
