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A colleague of mine wrote a spreadsheet in one line (253 bytes) of BASIC. I wonder if I still have it somewhere ...



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?


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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