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From: "Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com>
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On 7/24/06, Micah Stetson <micah@stetsonnet.org> wrote:
> > missing because implementing an Excel-alike is "boring" and somehow
> > against "the Plan 9 way".
>
> text files plus a filesystem interface.  I imagine a shell script or
> two, with something like that, would be more powerful than most
> spreadsheets.

I was skimming an article on the new Windows shell:

http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars/

It supports some interesting things with CSV and XML as data and a
SQL-like syntax to manipulate it.  The meat of it is at:

http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars/7

All things you can do with other tools, but they make it darned easy,
and standardizing the access to the data is the leverage (something
Plan 9 is also good at).

-Jack