Beginner needs advice

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 21:29, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  If you disagree, then I invite you to list one example of two
>>> different things that are compatible.
>>>
>>
>> Men and women.
>
> This is a slightly different sense of the word compatible than we have
> been discussing: able to work together to perform a function, not
> interchangeable.
>
>> MS Office and Open Office.
>
> Nope.  Remember, the assertion by harrismh777 was that "all you have
> to do to prove incompatibility is to show 'one' (1) test case where
> compatibility fails".  As one example, any Calc document that uses the
> EASTERSUNDAY function will fail in Excel, since Excel does not provide
> it.  I could easily come up with other examples (let's not even get
> into the differences in macros), but one is all I need.
>
>> IE6 and HTML.
>
> :-)
>

Ian, I'm surprised, you of all people might have noticed that my
sarcasm was intended to point out exactly that no two things are
compatible, least of all those things designed with compatibility as a
design spec!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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