[Edu-sig] Programming for the fun of it

[Alan Gauld]

>> * Fix the software you use
>
>Only if it's Open Source :-)

We've already seen this stated but its not true.
Most software packages nowadays contain macro capability 
and in the case of MS Office those macros are written in 
a programming language - VBA. Thus knowledge of programming
frees the Office user of the restraints of the received 
code and allow them to "fix it" in the sense of writing 
their own versions of buggy features.

So no, Open Source, wonderful tho' it may be, is not the 
only case where this topic applies. (And anyone who has 
written any sreerious VBA code knows that it is most
definitely programming in the general sense! :)

Alan g.