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From: typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr John Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Scientific Spreadsheet? WingZ is crap!
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.063844.5678@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 16 Nov 90 06:38:44 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.100655.3353@csc.anu.oz.au>
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pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au writes:

>WingZ

>Is anyone who bought WingZ still using it? Or have we all drifted back to 
>Excel/ Cricket Graph/ other graphing programs?

>I find the graphics in WingZ a pain: not easy to set defaults - cannot 
>double click on most chart items to change them - too many menus - too many 
>hierarchical menus - to many 'dividing line' in the menus - too few 
>'graphic menus' a.k.a. excel's or cricket graph's plot type menus - version 
>1.1 takes more RAM than version 1 
>All in all, a program fro which I paid over $200 for (including the 
>upgrade) since I thought that anything would be better than Excel, is 
>worse than Excel.

>Where is a 'scientific spreadsheet'? 
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>Phil Ryan                                         
>ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
>Canberra, Australia 

Yes, we still use it. Once you get to know the ENORMOUS hyperscript
language, it actually is very nice. As usual, it's horses for courses
Phil. Choice of software standard packages often seems to me a very
aesthetically based one, not unlike the choice of a religion --
you tend to stick to, or measure by, the first one you met. Think
of all the WordStar fools there are out there.
                              
-- 
John Wilkins, Manager, Publishing & Advertising,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Internet: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au
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