Re: converting VB programs (was Re: developing a K12 Linux distribution)

[thi <ttn@mingle.glug.org>]

Pete St. Onge writes:

 > I have some code to calculate diversity simple diversity indicies,
 > for instance, that folks can download (source code and all) and
 > use. I would love to port this to a completely OSS spreadsheet so
 > that one would not have to use Excel to obtain those functions. Does
 > anyone know of any such beasts which can be extended by adding simple
 > user functions? Am trying to stay away from getting into program
 > internals, as the people I am trying to reach (typically ecological
 > scientists and grad students) seldom have the time or the inclination
 > to become proficient in C, C++ in order to implement new functions.

check out gnumeric.  i think i saw a recent update on freshmeat.

thi