macro's

[stiched]

hi, i have to do a presentation on macros. could anyone tell me some of the uses of macros apart from gaming? i know that they are used in programming but im not sure how? could anyone give me some examples?

what other areas of computing are macros used?
thankz

 

[furtivefelon]

other area of computing... well, i use macros in lisp (a programming language, actually the first high level programming languages).. if you are interested, http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html is a wonderful book exploring deep about macros (requires extensive knowledge about lisp).. beginner book here: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

 

[office politics]

i used macros to format excel pages. I had reports in excel that i wanted to cleanup. I used the record macro in excel while formatting the first report, assigned a hotkey, and ran the macro on all the other reports.

i remember having a macro for some email project. I needed to repeat the same actions over and over again. I did it manually for a bit, but that ****ed me off so i got a app to record a macro for it.

so i guess repetition of the same actions. an automated process.