After learning cgi-bin and then learning how bad it is because of spawning new processes and that things like servlet engines, mod_php, mod_perl, etc solve this problem - What is there like this for python Not to start a flame war but the closest I've seen involves ASP with Python on (of course0) only Win32
Excel first appeared on the Mac, where it's competition was probably Jazz from Lotus, a office suite type idea I think. It's basically a spreadsheet Macified, in pretty close accordance with the user interface principles Apple spelled out in their Inside Macintosh volume I (the grid, splittable windows with separate scrolling in each section, fonts, multiple selections, etc).
I always thought it was pretty cool and it definitely was a significant step from 1-2-3, which after all had a pretty limited interface, no fonts, one document at a time, the typical for the time totally idiosyncratic command set (no edit menu with cut copy paste etc).
Excel was a logical step rather than a new concept but I think they were the first to take it (unless Jazz had all those features and predated it, which wouldn't surprise me).
The time when M$ was really abusing the Excel situation was in about 1994-1998, when they brought Apple to their knees with the dreaded Mac Office 6.0 featuring some of the worst ever programmed software for the Mac. Word and Excel had taken the lead from WordPerfect and Lotus and Apple still had some independence.
What are the most important programs to the Mac? Word and Excel. What happened to the Mac user who installed 6.0 (probably forced to cause of file formats) ? The programs were BUTT-ugly, slow, fat, flaky, crashed- M$'s answer- get a PC (ie a Windows license). Once they played the Office card to the max with the threat of stopping it entirely (see Jackson's findings of fact) Apple bent over, Jobs abased himself before Gates at MacWorld (the giant video head of BillyG), and Macs now ship with IE (even though it's an integral part of an OS that doesn't run on macs, not an application). And then Office 98 came out, and hey presto! let's get an iMac they're CUTE. and they come with IE, goodie! Back then Lotus was really a much more obnoxious company than M$ about intellectual property - copy protected, 300$ for a DOS spreadsheet, the whole suit against Borland and other 1-2-3 clone makers...funny that Kapor ended up doing all this EFF stuff.
I'm posting this from the latest nightly Mozilla. It is pretty smooth and startin gto look polished. I can't log into hotmail and I think that is because it doesn't have SSL or maybe just SSL proxy (I'm going through a proxy). This is a VAST improvement over M10.
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After learning cgi-bin and then learning how bad it is because of spawning new processes and that things like servlet engines, mod_php, mod_perl, etc solve this problem - What is there like this for python Not to start a flame war but the closest I've seen involves ASP with Python on (of course0) only Win32
I always thought it was pretty cool and it definitely was a significant step from 1-2-3, which after all had a pretty limited interface, no fonts, one document at a time, the typical for the time totally idiosyncratic command set (no edit menu with cut copy paste etc).
Excel was a logical step rather than a new concept but I think they were the first to take it (unless Jazz had all those features and predated it, which wouldn't surprise me).
The time when M$ was really abusing the Excel situation was in about 1994-1998, when they brought Apple to their knees with the dreaded Mac Office 6.0 featuring some of the worst ever programmed software for the Mac. Word and Excel had taken the lead from WordPerfect and Lotus and Apple still had some independence.
What are the most important programs to the Mac? Word and Excel. What happened to the Mac user who installed 6.0 (probably forced to cause of file formats) ? The programs were BUTT-ugly, slow, fat, flaky, crashed- M$'s answer- get a PC (ie a Windows license). Once they played the Office card to the max with the threat of stopping it entirely (see Jackson's findings of fact) Apple bent over, Jobs abased himself before Gates at MacWorld (the giant video head of BillyG), and Macs now ship with IE (even though it's an integral part of an OS that doesn't run on macs, not an application). And then Office 98 came out, and hey presto! let's get an iMac they're CUTE. and they come with IE, goodie! Back then Lotus was really a much more obnoxious company than M$ about intellectual property - copy protected, 300$ for a DOS spreadsheet, the whole suit against Borland and other 1-2-3 clone makers...funny that Kapor ended up doing all this EFF stuff.
I'm posting this from the latest nightly Mozilla. It is pretty smooth and startin gto look polished. I can't log into hotmail and I think that is because it doesn't have SSL or maybe just SSL proxy (I'm going through a proxy). This is a VAST improvement over M10.