vlkamov

Ненавижу электронные таблицы однако не могу не отметить их движущую роль в распространении персональных компьютеров. Предполагается, что идея принадлежит Бриклину, идея которая овладела миллионными массами и стала материальной силой.

Bob Frankston joined Bricklin, and the pair formed the Software Arts company and developed the VisiCalc program for two months during the winter of 1978–79. Bricklin wrote that

with the years of experience we had at the time we created VisiCalc, we were familiar with many row/column financial programs. In fact, Bob had worked since the 1960s at Interactive Data Corporation, a major timesharing utility that was used for some of them and I was exposed to some at Harvard Business School in one of the classes.

Bricklin was referring to the variety of report generators that were in use at that time, including Business Planning Language (BPL) from International Timesharing Corporation (ITS) and Foresight from Foresight Systems. However, these earlier timesharing programs were not completely interactive, nor did they run on personal computers.

Frankston described VisiCalc as a "magic sheet of paper that can perform calculations and recalculations"

А сейчас Даниель Бриклин разрабатывает SocialCalc, электронную таблицу на Javascript'е, которая работает прямо в броузере. Нужно что-то прикинуть по-быстрому - просто открываете, например это
http://plugindetector.com/ru/socialcalc
не устанавливая громоздкие "офисы".