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No, the prevailing implementations are mapped to the grids of ledger sheets which the accountants who were the initial market were accustomed to. (A vivid memory from when I was young was the accountant who pulled up to the computer store I was at and said, "I want a Visicalc" --- after a bit of back-and-forth w/ the salesman, he loaded up his Trans Am w/ pretty much one of everything in the store (Apple ][, 80 column card, dual floppies, wide printer, &c.)

Look up Lotus Improv and Javelin and Quantrix for examples of spreadsheets done right.




> Look up Lotus Improv and Javelin and Quantrix for examples of spreadsheets done right.

I looked them up but Google wasn't forthcoming about what made them be "done right". Can you explain what they brought?


They are multi-dimensional spreadsheets where one has to instantiate and name each possible column/row, and then the formulae are set aside in a separate pane, and it is possible to re-arrange things as desired.




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