<hendrik@...> writes: > The spreadsheet user interface is most useful when the data > naturally fits into arrays. > For many everyday applications, this is the case. > I don't see it for graphics, unless you are actually talking about a > mosaic. > > If you ignore the conventional meaning of the word "cell" in the above, > though, what you have is very like a programming language. The traditional > UI for a programming language has been ASCII text. For you and me (I'm assuming we're both programmer-geek-types here) spreadsheets are just awkward and ugly glorified calcuators that waste a lot of screen space and spread out the calculation definitions so that you have to click around to find them all. However, I argue that the spreadsheet model is mentally accessible to a much larger user base, and it does not reduce or limit the sophistication of the underlying image core DAG. Spreadsheets provide an easy learning curve and an obvious data model. I have met many people who lack technical sophistication that can still create and use spreadsheets. _______________________________________________ Gegl-developer mailing list Gegl-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer
