Re: Old vs. New: Pascal and other stuff.

On Feb 15, 12:22 am, dirk-we...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dirk Weber) wrote:
>
> I'll have a look at nedit, don't know it yet. StarOffice 5.2 was a
> great office suite, I did use it under Windows and later on under
> Linux. Now I use OpenOffice.org. Switching over to OpenOffice became
> useful when the German spelling rules were changed quite a bit some
> years ago. As an office worker you must not spell wrong - and the new
> rules are a nuisance to everybody who learned the old rules in his
> youth.
>
> Unfortunately OpenOffice.org is not such a good html browser as
> StarOffice used to be. And furthermore I still miss the news and mail
> modules which made StarOffice a really complete office suite.
>

> If there were some coll weather resistant sorts we could plant rice
> here ...
>
> Greetings from Arft,
>
> Dirk Weber

StarOffice is good example. Have you ever tried programming in
StarBasic?? You might like the StarOffice IDE. StarBasic is a close
relative of ObjectPascal. I have StarOffice7 and books, but
StarOffice5.2 serves my uses better. The fonts are better on newer
linux distros like RedHat9.