Re: Your spreadsheet experiences

Jody Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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.

I've found Gnumeric to be quite a complete app, i'm not sure i could
offer much to the project but thanks for the reply, i'll poke around.