Here, here. The old guys/gals in the old days wre not always all that dumb.
If ou are intereste, take alook at the Bendix RLH architecture: "run like
hell";
the organizing principle was roughly the idea that:
in order to run as fast as possible
never wait.
In short, each _previous_ stage in the architecture s responsible to
_always_ have the _inputs_
to the next stage (outputs _fro_ the previous stage) by the time the next
stage needed them.
That died with the Bendix computers in the 50s/60s.
True data flow reductiongrids at the bit level still do not exist.
On 6/10/06, Don Guinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Building a spreadsheet is still programming. It's just not procedural.
Entering a document with markup into a word processor is also
programming. Don't forget the old EAM machines with boards. That was
programming too. I am still impressed by that architecture as those were
machines with cycle times of as little as 3 hertz and could still
outperform today's PCs with gigahertz speeds.
John Randall wrote:
>Steven H. Rogers writes:
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>>Spreadsheets are often used to edit, view, and present data with little
>>actual computation performed on spreadsheet values. While APL and J are
>>"better" at most computations, spreadsheets are "good enough" for most
>>people's needs.
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>The good enough is the enemy of the good.
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>I agree with Oleg's comments about intuitiveness being a major appeal
with
>spreadsheets. Anything that can be used instantly to solve the task at
>hand is better than something which has to be deliberately learned.
>
>I know a number of people who know very little about programming but are
>absolute whizzes with spreadsheets. In general, they are incapable of
>explaining what they are doing, but get they the correct result,
>reinforcing the idea that spreadsheets tap into some kind of intuition.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>John
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