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Somewhat random, but spreadsheets continued to evolve after VisiCalc (obviously). Here is one by the inventor of VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin, on github: https://git
by ilaksh 3y ago
Somewhat random, but spreadsheets continued to evolve after VisiCalc (obviously).
Here is one by the inventor of VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin, on github: https://github.com/DanBricklin/socialcalc https://github.com/DanBricklin/socialcalc
Audrey Tang (who happens to currently serve as the Minister of Digital Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)) created the Node.js port of SocialCalc, EtherCalc: https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc
Audrey made a fascinating write up of SocialCalc for The Architecture of Open Source Applications https://aosabook.org/en/v1/socialcalc.html https://aosabook.org/en/v1/socialcalc.html
- karmakaze 3y agoCool that Dan Bricklin still writes software, open source no less. The other name's familiar too. (Looked it up) Audrey Tang also started Pugs which prototyped Perl6 in Haskell while it was being designed.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoGiven by just the github account, his last activity was 13 years ago; his personal website last had a post in 2018 though (http://www.bricklin.com/default.htm http://www.bricklin.com/default.htm). He / his company made some iOS apps as well.
- snvzz 3y ago>open source no less. Dual license CPAL + Artistic. They are both OSI approved, but uncommon.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoAudrey Tang also wrote a simpler spreadsheet for another AOSA book: https://aosabook.org/en/500L/web-spreadsheet.html https://aosabook.org/en/500L/web-spreadsheet.html
- kqr 3y agoThese books are such a gold mine yet I constantly feel like it's hard to motivate myself to buy one and properly read it through. Suggestions?
- rahimnathwani 3y agoStart with the 500 lines one, and read the first half of one chapter.
- adamrezich 3y agoI've never used it, Lotus Improv seems like it was awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3M (plus the 80s–90s vibes of this video are simply incredible) I think there's still a ton of room for spreadsheet tech to evolve, but nobody seems to really be trying anymore, because Excel is the Gold Standard that everyone seems comfortable with. for example: why do neither of the mainstream spreadsheet apps (Excel, Google Sheets) have first-class support for row and column headers? seems like an absolute no-brainer to me, and everyone who has worked in spreadsheets for more than thirty minutes.
- pjmlp 3y agoAn improv video, thanks for the link. I only have the contemporary magazines with analysis of it.
- layer8 3y ago> first-class support for row and column headers Excel provides Tables for that. Outside tables, you can define named row or column ranges, and reference them by name, including their intersections. The names are just not displayed in the headers (use Tables if you want that).
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- airstrike 3y agoSadly their license is terrible.