From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: program to compute gears, with table Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 01:51:09 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86a824sqaa.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86bmmlu54a.fsf@zoho.com> <86pob1rsbx.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504914929 6206 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2017 23:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:55:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 01:55:25 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqT7K-0001Jz-N1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 01:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqT7R-0001vP-RV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:55:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!168.235.88.217.MISMATCH!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: XiPr5pdukK7aCRjr/wfS1Q.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JPd3zu5kQIYNJPFhvk+QV5pbqFw= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220102 rec.bicycles.tech:1003570 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114208 Archived-At: Joerg wrote: > Why make things complicated? It isn't - it's fun :) > I do such stuff with spreadsheets. When done, feeding a CLI tool with data from the shell is faster and more pleasant (cooler) than using a spreadsheet. It can then also be combined with other such tools, tho I admit that probably won't happen in this case (?). A spreadsheet is of course a fine way to do it as well. > That's what they were invented for. Programming languages were also invented for this kind of... computing :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573