[racket] Considering taking the plunge

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Oct 11 16:25:05 EDT 2012

Four hours ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> It is a perfectly normal idea. Racket comes with a DB library, and I
> think you will be able to extract the data from your SQL db. As for
> generating Excel spreadsheets, I don't know how often you will need
> to do this. I had to take this step in the spring (for personal
> reasons), and I decided to create a CSV file instead, opened it in
> Excel, corrected the two or three mistakes I found, and shipped it
> off.

At least last time I looked, CSV was still very supported in excel --
not as some hack but to the point where excel assigns itself to run
with *.csv files.  So creating a CSV file should be a fine way to do
this.

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