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Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal by Hackbraten on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:35PM (#24319895)
You’re pretty much guaranteed to own your data forever. You also don’t have to deal with major UI changes where features are rearranged all the time. It’s also pretty VCS-friendly.
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Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal by dividedbyzero on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:52PM (#24319983)
> You’re pretty much guaranteed to own your data forever.

Don't I have that with Excel too, in practice?

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Re:SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal by Hackbraten on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:09AM (#24322071)
I’m not sure. Two observations:

I have dozens of Word documents created on Windows in the mid-90s that current Word versions refuse to open.

Excel for Mac keeps subtly adding four years to every date field if the file was originally created in Excel for Windows.

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