Csound1 wrote:
LO uses Basic but Visual Basic support is present and improving, Excel (of course) is the VBA king. Numbers is out on a limb with AppleScript (hardly cross platform)
Actually, Excel for the Mac acted a little strange with some macros from the PC world. Excel 2016 has closed the gap (with the exception of some low-level Windows-specific stuff).
Both VBA and AppleScript are getting long at the tooth, and neither language works very well in the browser or on mobile (which is to say they don't work there at all). But they're both well documented, with tons of examples just an internet search away.
If you live in a vacuum that excludes Excel files then Numbers is a good little home spreadsheet. But still inferior (in functionality) to LO, which is a lot cheaper. Numbers looks good, that's all I can say to commend it.
What is this? Csound1 writing something possibly positive about Numbers! Numbers is just as free as LibreOffice on modern Macs, of course. It's great for home use and some business use, including data entry on mobile in the field. It'll generally exchange data easily with other spreadsheet apps (and other apps that accept spreadsheet data) but it doesn't try to emulate many of the features of other apps. For many users that's a good thing.
SG
