Comment by airstrike

3 days ago

I didn't dismiss Visicalc at all. In fact, I even said it had fantastic success.

I dismissed the article's claim that maintaining a dependency graph is overkill for a spreadsheet. That's a false statement. It might have been true at the time, but it's not true today. The phrase as written in TFA is poor form and misleading to beginners.

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izacus  3 days ago

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  • dang  11 hours ago

    Whoa, can you please not cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are? We've had to ask you this more than once before.

    I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good things, but bad things do more badness than good things do goodness. Unfortunately.

    If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

  • airstrike  3 days ago

    Few things are more arrogant than telling someone you're teaching them a lesson...

    This is a product from 1979! It does not prove me wrong at all. Trade offs are different today. Decisions that applied then don't apply now. The quoted text from TFA is wrong and simplistic.