[AccessD] F'n 2007

I read or heard a podcast where Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com), who
wrote the specs for Excel VBA, commented on this.  If I remember correctly,
VBA had been set up by one of the groups (Excel or Access), and then the
other group was forced to adapt VBA to work with its product - that's why
the two object models are different.

I can't find the exact reference, but here's his remarks on Mac vs Windows
VBA for Excel:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/25.html

Doug Steele

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:35 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> LOL, it is entirely likely that they in fact never did collaborate at all.
>
> VBA is a base language.  VBA for Access simply adds extensions required to
> understand Jet and Access
> specific things.  VBA for Excel simply adds extensions to understand excel
> specific things.  What
> the Access team would add to Excel's team when writing Excel extensions is
> pretty questionable, and
> vice versa.
>
>