I've been using sc-im for a few months, and I like it a lot. It crashes here and there (not wonderful) so I wish it were a little more robust, but it doesn't corrupt your files when it does so it's just some work lost (save early, save often). But otherwise, it's powerful and ergonomic for Vim users, so checks all my boxes haha.
I learned spreadsheeting in Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS in the early '90s. It is so fast and super powerful. I still use the 1-2-3 keystrokes in Excel to this day (an option that I'm both infinitely pleased and super shocked still exists, Microsoft actually did something right!)
If anyone out there knows how to obtain Lotus and get it running in Linux, please please let me know!
Because, not to put too fine a point on it, sc, sc-im and oleo are completely useless without months of self-training, and even then... meh.
If you no longer have the ability to read your floppies or CD-ROMs you can find them on archive.org fairly easily. I'd imagine the DOS version would run in DOSBox fairly easily. For the Windows version, wine is reported to work https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio....
I remember my dad used to say FoxPro was the best in DOS after Visual FoxPro it didn't pick up. Large applications could be built simply in FoxPro and perfomance was really good.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 40.3 ms ] threadTo download and emulate VisiCalc: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
If anyone out there knows how to obtain Lotus and get it running in Linux, please please let me know!
Because, not to put too fine a point on it, sc, sc-im and oleo are completely useless without months of self-training, and even then... meh.
It is so convenient that there is orgtbl-mode which allows Org tables even outside Org files https://youtu.be/EQAd41VAXWo
I remember my dad used to say FoxPro was the best in DOS after Visual FoxPro it didn't pick up. Large applications could be built simply in FoxPro and perfomance was really good.