From: Garance A Drosihn Date: 2003-06-30T09:09:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Opinions on ZigZag? At 1:18 PM +0900 6/28/03, Gawnsoft wrote: >On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:40:41 +0900, "Hal E. Fulton" > wrote (more or less): > >>I've been reading about ZigZag again... in some >>ways it seems interesting, but I do think it's > >overhyped. > > >I'm scooting my way through the links on the page you cited, >and so far it looks like the Lotus Improv 'spreadsheet' >which was available on NextStep (and then briefly on Win3.1) ZigZag is so busy screaming about how inventive it is, that I'm not quite sure what the point to it is. I don't know if ZigZag is nothing more than someone coming up with the ideas which were implemented in Improv, but I will say that I thought Improv was great. iirc, Lighthouse Design also had a spreadsheet-like program which worked a lot like Improv, but then Sun bought Lighthouse Design and "improved" all of their products into nothingness. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu