On 7/24/06, Micah Stetson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> missing because implementing an Excel-alike is "boring" and somehow
> against "the Plan 9 way".
text files plus a filesystem interface. I imagine a shell script or
two, with something like that, would be more powerful than most
spreadsheets.
I was skimming an article on the new Windows shell:
http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars/
It supports some interesting things with CSV and XML as data and a
SQL-like syntax to manipulate it. The meat of it is at:
http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars/7
All things you can do with other tools, but they make it darned easy,
and standardizing the access to the data is the leverage (something
Plan 9 is also good at).
-Jack
