Re: Your spreadsheet experiences

Harlan Grove<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "gswork" wrote...
> >Just interested in your spreadsheet experiences, opinions and so on.
> 

> For Windows, Excel is good. More fun to use than 123, but that's not because it
> provides more features - more because there's always something new (and
> nonobvious) to discover (makes one wonder if Excel's programmers are aware of
> most of these). Generally, 123 does a better job with numerical accuracy and
> recalc speed, but Excel offers array formula fun. Quattro Pro doesn't have the
> polish of either of the other two. StarOffice/OpenOffice would be up there if
> they provided documentation for macro programming as part of the distribution.
> As it is, SO/OO is more Works on steroids than a complete replacement for
> Office, but most people don't need Office.

That's very true, Office is in some ways the 'highest common
denominator', a ubiquitous suite that is used to 10% or less of it's
capabilities by 90%+ of it's users.

I didn't mention that i've also played around with 'Ability Office',
the spreadsheet there being a good Excel clone, in effect.

> 
> >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!
> 
> Way back I added a few extra functions to the Minicalc that came with Turbo
> Pascal. Recently I've gone through parts of the gnumeric source tree, but never
> done more than tweaked some worksheet functions.

It's certainly a much larger project in terms of sheer size of the
code base!