“Based on Improv”? Really?! Makes me want to take an immediate look. The Visicalc → 1-2-3 → Multiplan → Excel → Sheets progression? Mostly steady, incremental

“Based on Improv”? Really?! Makes me want to take an immediate look. The Visicalc → 1-2-3 → Multiplan → Excel → Sheets progression? Mostly steady, incremental improvement. Some steps were great—like internet access and multi-user collaboration—but fundamentally, it’s a straight line. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Numbers, etc.—they've all been basically just more increments on the same theme. Only two spreadsheet approaches have ever struck me as _truly_ different. One was Improv. (The other was Xerox Analyst, built in Smalltalk for the intelligence community.)