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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
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Subject: Re: Scientific Spreadsheet? WingZ is crap!
Keywords: Wingz, macros, defaults
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Date: 19 Nov 90 00:52:04 GMT
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In article <1990Nov18.054809.21637@actrix.co.nz> Bruce.Hoult@actrix.co.nz (Bruce Hoult) writes:

>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.


Ok.  Makes a little more sense when you present it as a HyperScripted program
(though, thinking about its dialog boxes, I should've realized that in the
first place...), indicating, in some ways, that a lot more thought was put
into the core than the interface.  As long as that's under a modular system,
it makes sense.  It was just the thought of Wordliness that disturbed me...
  :-)

 -Lee
| William Lee Nussbaum, Jr.
| wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu