On 21/04/2012, Jean-Francois Nifenecker <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 21/04/2012 17:48, Jay Lozier a écrit : >> I think the above syntax was developed for Lotus 123 in the early >> 80's(?) and everyone else implemented the rules/syntax to be compatible >> with Lotus. By the mid 80's this syntax was standard for all spreadsheets. >> >> The only real change from Lotus is that (using 1) is in Lotus formulas >> were enter +SUM(A1:A10) while the IMHO the more logical =SUM(A1:A10) was >> introduced later by the mid 80's. > > Thanks for the historical backgroud, Jay. Interesting to know. >
Agreed; the purpose of the post was to ask a simple question and learn something new about spreadsheet formulae, so thanks to those for their information. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
