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Subject:Re: OLE Survey From:"Stuart Burnfield" <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> To:"Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:38:32 +0800
OLE? Ain't that the fancy-dan newfangled version of DDE (Dynamic Data
Exchange) that all the youngsters are doing these days?
--- Stuart
ps. Transclusion is the similar idea in the world of XML and
hypertext--your young padawans might be more familiar with that term.
From: Chris Morton
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 18:47:15 -0500
> This I knew from having been there (T-shirt, coffee mug, etc.).
> But when I dusted it off and introduced it at a recent consultation
> gig, younger team members were gobsmacked. They had no
> idea that you could link or embed items within one another.
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