Re: Your spreadsheet experiences

On 2003-11-14, gswork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just interested in your spreadsheet experiences, opinions and so on.
>
> I've used visicalc (just for fun - it was obsolete when i used it),
> Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS and some clones, then Excel 5 for Win 3.1, Lotus
> for Win 95 and since then Excel 95/97/2000/xp.   Elswhere i've used
> gnumeric, kspread and a couple of other open source spreadsheets.
>
> I hear Quattro is pretty good, i've no experience of it.
>
> There's not much traffic on this group - perhaps because Excel is so
> all pervasive now (and, IMO, it is really good - but not so good it
> deserves to be the *only* one!).
>
> The group's faq is a good resource, thanks to author/s.
>
> Anyone tried programming a spreadsheet ( as in developing one, not
> using a macro language )?  If you've used Turbo C (ver 3 IIRC) you
> might have played with that example project, which yields a useful
> little spreadsheet!

I maintain Gnumeric.

We're always looking for help if anyone wants to fix some pet peeve
in existing proprietary products.  Our goal is to provide a
framework for spreadsheet development that on one hand can provide
enough compatiblity with existing apps that people can move back and
forth.  On the other hand can we're building in hooks to allow new
development too.

Drop by www.gnumeric.org if you're interesting in helping or just
poking around.