I make frequent use of the evil spreadsheet at work. We do a lot of data collection, so we need something of that sort. It's probably missing because implementing an Excel-alike is "boring" and somehow against "the Plan 9 way".
I've often thought that something like acme for tabular data would be cool. I'd basically like a row/column-based editor for tab-delimited text files plus a filesystem interface. I imagine a shell script or two, with something like that, would be more powerful than most spreadsheets. You could also use it to browse/edit databases. I don't think that would be boring or against the Plan 9 way. No code forthcoming. This message is not intended to be helpful. Micah
