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The article highlights that LANPAR could handle forward references (cells referencing other cells not yet calculated) through iterative evaluation loops. This s
by N_Lens 10mo ago
The article highlights that LANPAR could handle forward references (cells referencing other cells not yet calculated) through iterative evaluation loops. This seems mundane now, but was genuinely novel in 1970 and didn't reappear in spreadsheets until Lotus 1-2-3 in the 1980s.
- jeffhuys 10mo agoYea, I just read that too.