Comment by olav

1 day ago

Treesheets had this for over 15 years now. https://strlen.com/treesheets/

But treesheets isn’t used by millions of office workers across the globe. I doubt treesheets is know by 2% of the HN audience. So it just doesn’t make the news.

Or was the point you knew an obscure fact about an obscure application?

  • Same applies to many of the more elaborate usages of Excel I'd argue. Only few dive deep

And Lotus Improv ‘solved’ spreadsheets about thirty-five years ago. So?

  • So?

    • I guess “so nothing”. The model is fundamentally broken. Adding a third dimension to certain cells by giving them a new type (‘tuple’, ‘list’?) whilst also having multiple sheets that aren’t (really) addressable is a disaster for the semantics.