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Archive for March 31. 2004
Spreadsheets: 25 Years in a Cell
March 31. 2004 by Del.
Yahoo! News - Spreadsheets: 25 Years in a Cell: “Spreadsheets: 25 Years in a Cell
Peter Coffee - eWEEK
In this 25th anniversary year of the PC spreadsheet, we can be proud of the progress we’ve made in decision technology. We can also be appalled by the stagnation of our decision-making practices. The things we learned to do badly in 1979, upon the debut of VisiCalc, we mostly continue to do wrong today.
IT observer Stan Kelly-Bootle described in 1995 the impact of VisiCalc and its descendants: “The PC soon blossomed as the Uzi of creative corporate accounting,” he wrote. “The What-If moved to Why-Not, indicting the spreadsheet as the chief culprit in the 1980s S&L scandal.”
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