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From: ue342@ciao.trail.bc.ca (JASON RASKU)
Subject: Re: Letter From Ted Nelson
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Henry Baker (hbaker@netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <3r4kpr$q9q@crl4.crl.com>, dbennett@crl.com (Andrea Chen) wrote:

: > A historical example is the spreadsheet
: > (a product which helped launch the PC revolution).  Two features
: > which distinguished it were its matrix frontend and "automatic
: > recalculation" in the backend.  This second feature is natural to
: > Lisp dialects which could have served as an engine.  They would
: > also have provided call by name (not just cell number) and 
: > "multidimensional" structures.  It took spreadsheet engines over
: > ten years to evolve these features on their own.  

: The first spreadsheet _was_ prototyped in Multics Lisp by Bob Frankston,
: which became 'VisiCalc', I believe.

	Am I mistaken or is this message being overly crossposted?

							Jason Rasku
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