2004-04-01

When You're Holding Excel, Everything Looks Like A Spreadsheet

As you may have heard, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the spreadsheet. I celebrated the occasion by reading a discussion and links of their past and future. Of particular interest were the next-generation spreadsheets like Improv that never managed to free us from Excel's tyranny; researchers are still inventing new modelling tools, although by this point it seems obvious that they will ever be widely adopted.