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Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code? by RodgerTheGreat on Saturday December 31, 2011 @06:36PM (#3412208)
That's pretty interesting. What features did it offer? Just a grid of cells, or some crude facility for summing/counting rows and columns as well?
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Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code? by ColinWright on Saturday December 31, 2011 @07:03PM (#3412259)
It was a grid of cells. Each cell could contain a constant or a formula, strings or numbers. You selected the cell to change with a mouse, and it recomputed once per click on a button. In essence it was fully functional, just lacking file load and save.

It didn't have charts or graphics, but the cell functionality was pretty complete. Using "EVAL" meant you had access to any function in the underlying language.

I'll see if I can dig it out.

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