← Back to context Comment by drob518 7 hours ago Exactly. I immediately thought, “So, we’ve invented VisiCalc all over again.” 6 comments drob518 Reply freedomben 6 hours ago TBF, VisiCalc is not open source, and this is relatively fresh start, so I don't think it's fair to compare this to a reinvention. drob518 5 hours ago Isn’t that what reinvention means? freedomben 4 hours ago I suppose that's fair, and I concede, though I think you can play with the definition enough to make anything spreadsheet (even GUIs and webapps) be "reinvention" of visicalc, so I think the term is actually pretty meaningless. 3 replies →
freedomben 6 hours ago TBF, VisiCalc is not open source, and this is relatively fresh start, so I don't think it's fair to compare this to a reinvention. drob518 5 hours ago Isn’t that what reinvention means? freedomben 4 hours ago I suppose that's fair, and I concede, though I think you can play with the definition enough to make anything spreadsheet (even GUIs and webapps) be "reinvention" of visicalc, so I think the term is actually pretty meaningless. 3 replies →
drob518 5 hours ago Isn’t that what reinvention means? freedomben 4 hours ago I suppose that's fair, and I concede, though I think you can play with the definition enough to make anything spreadsheet (even GUIs and webapps) be "reinvention" of visicalc, so I think the term is actually pretty meaningless. 3 replies →
freedomben 4 hours ago I suppose that's fair, and I concede, though I think you can play with the definition enough to make anything spreadsheet (even GUIs and webapps) be "reinvention" of visicalc, so I think the term is actually pretty meaningless. 3 replies →
TBF, VisiCalc is not open source, and this is relatively fresh start, so I don't think it's fair to compare this to a reinvention.
Isn’t that what reinvention means?
I suppose that's fair, and I concede, though I think you can play with the definition enough to make anything spreadsheet (even GUIs and webapps) be "reinvention" of visicalc, so I think the term is actually pretty meaningless.
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