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Very cool! Slightly related... I reckon a command line / ncurses version of Excel would be really useful. Am I crazy? e.g. something like http://upload.wikime

by dhotson 12y ago

Very cool! Slightly related... I reckon a command line / ncurses version of Excel would be really useful. Am I crazy? e.g. something like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Lotus-123-3.0-dos.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Lotus-123-3.0-... Spreadsheets are a pretty useful and powerful tool when it comes to doing ad-hoc data analysis, but it's kind of annoying to get data in and out of them from command line tools.

clxl 12y ago
I'm actually working on this, although for various reasons I had to reimplement the formula parser (corner cases are a pain). Screenshot (in progress): http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png http://i.imgur.com/snyBhYH.png
Someone 12y ago
Just download VisiCalc: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm I have no idea how easy it is to pipe input into and out of it, but it certainly want designed for it.
DanBC 12y ago
Fat-finger errors are already terrifying in spreadsheets. How would you help prevent them in command line tools?
- dhotson 12y ago
  Isn't that true for a lot of tools? Including programming languages?
Raphael 12y ago
R?
dmd 12y ago
GNU Oleo has a curses mode.
- kourt 12y ago
  there is also "sc", "spreadsheet calc" I would love a maintained {n,}curses mode spreadsheet that can handle excel1040.com.