Re:The design philosophy of Great Tables
by tomcam on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:23PM
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Fantastic article, duly bookmarked. However.
“The democratization of computational tables arguably began with VisiCalc in 1979…
I mean, try it out and you’ll see that this is quite limited in more than a few ways.”
Them’s fightin’ words. IMHO VisiCalc’s ability to generate models quickly changed civilization. It freed people to try out ideas at no cost and to view or manipulate data in ways no one could hope to do before.
“The democratization of computational tables arguably began with VisiCalc in 1979… I mean, try it out and you’ll see that this is quite limited in more than a few ways.”
Them’s fightin’ words. IMHO VisiCalc’s ability to generate models quickly changed civilization. It freed people to try out ideas at no cost and to view or manipulate data in ways no one could hope to do before.