Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps

Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by Avshalom on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:43PM (#15544117)

I suspect path dependence (and price for quantrix) more than anything is what keeps Excel in charge.

I mean even beyond just switching costs: Excel is for instance the only format for getting data from http://www.earthchem.org/petdb/ or, to keep harping on geologists, people that keep implementing models in excel: which you then have to use because nobody trusts code you wrote yourself.

and it only gets worse with time.

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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by greedo on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:55PM (#15544227)

Yet ironically, Excel introduces errors.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-pap...

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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by Avshalom on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:11PM (#15544359)

I don't know if it's ironic in any useful sense, so much as fucking depressing.

though yes a calculator that refuses to let you enter numbers correctly is some 'Time Enough at Last' levels of irony.

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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by mirimir on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:46PM (#15546739)

It's not specific to Excel. Calc does it too. Turning off all that auto-correct bullshit is one of the first things that I do with a new install.

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