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From: Bruce.Hoult@actrix.co.nz (Bruce Hoult)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Scientific Spreadsheet? WingZ is crap!
Keywords: Wingz, macros, defaults
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.054809.21637@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 18 Nov 90 05:48:09 GMT
References: <mday.658693872@pollack.mmwb.ucsf.edu> <1990Nov16.025616.878@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1990Nov16.181000.23961@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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Comment-To: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

In article <1990Nov16.181000.23961@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum) writes:

> >The menus in Wings are fully customizable, so if you don't like them
> >you can change their positions, add new ones or remove the ones you
> >don't need.  The manual has examples of how this can be done. (Again,
> >saving everything in the Startup macro sheet makes the changes
> >essentially become defaults.)
> 
> ...inclusion of customizable menus is a negative sign to me, in a number of
> ways.  It tends to signal that the program isn't well-designed enough to
> supply well-done menus on its own.  The feature itself isn't a problem; it's
> merely that its inclusion tends to worry me.  Witness Microsoft and MSWord.
> 
>  - Lee

It is my understanding that Wingz is in fact *not* the spreadsheet program
that you see when you use it, but is actually an "engine" for creating
spreadsheet programs.  The standard interface is simply a HyperScript
program that happens to be supplied with Wingz, in a non-human-readable
form.

-- Bruce Hoult
   Bruce.Hoult@actrix.gen.nz