Re: [libreoffice-users] calc compliance with openformula

On 21/04/2012, Jean-Francois Nifenecker
<jean-francois.nifenecker@laposte.net> wrote:
> Le 21/04/2012 17:48, Jay Lozier a écrit :
> > I think the above syntax was developed for Lotus 123 in the early
> > 80's(?) and everyone else implemented the rules/syntax to be compatible
> > with Lotus. By the mid 80's this syntax was standard for all spreadsheets.
> >
> > The only real change from Lotus is that (using 1) is in Lotus formulas
> > were enter +SUM(A1:A10) while the IMHO the more logical =SUM(A1:A10) was
> > introduced later by the mid 80's.
>
> Thanks for the historical backgroud, Jay. Interesting to know.

Agreed; the purpose of the post was to ask a simple question and learn
something new about spreadsheet formulae, so thanks to those for their
information.

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