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This is the kind of articles i cross my fingers to find in HN. This is a landmark application and it's great to be able to look inside the decisions required fo
by flavio81 9y ago
This is the kind of articles i cross my fingers to find in HN. This is a landmark application and it's great to be able to look inside the decisions required for it's successful creation.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThere are not many technical articles that are in addition well-written. I think the market would be small but I would like to read biographies about people Jobs, Gates or others but from a technical perspective.
- joe_the_user 9y agoVisicalc was a landmark application and landmarks have multiple implications. On the one hand, it advanced computer capacities forward. On the other hand, it created a language of spreadsheets and of any spread-sheet-like-use of a computer and this language has been used ever since. And the thing about language is that having one language forecloses the possibility of other languages.