From: John Johnson Date: 2003-06-30T11:04:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Opinions on ZigZag? on 6/29/03 8:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn at drosih@rpi.edu wrote: > 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. It appears to be a relational database to me. Queries are their dimensions. Add relation tables, and the fact that cursors wrap from beginning to end, and that seems to be about it. I don't see how they can be issued a patent for it. -- Regards, JJ Be Kind, Be Careful, Be Yourself