On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100 Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 13.03.18 08:59, Joe wrote: > > I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of > > application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc, > > which I know nothing about, but the description doesn't look > > compatible with 'simple', unless the user interface is similar to > > something you already know. > > An sc description: "Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and > it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things > like graphing and saving in foreign formats. It's very stable and > quite easy to use once you've put a little effort into learning it." > makes it look as simple as it gets. > > Erik > (Who just uses a line of awk when needing to sum a column or two in a > table.) > It's the 'little effort' that stood out for me. Someone familiar with the operation of a piece of software always grossly underestimates how much they know about it, and how much someone else coming to it cold needs to know. -- Joe