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Dan Bricklin's wikiCalc is Perl !

n1vux on 2006-03-15T16:22:42

Dan Bricklin, co-founder of VisiCalc and thus the spreadsheet revolution, is building his GPL2 dual-license collaborative "wikiCalc" tool in Perl with AJAX -- usuable locally, as CGI, or mod_perl. Imagine something with the collaborative advantages of a wiki but with WYSIWYG tables and embedded calculations. I'm going to be looking for some nails to pound with this hammer ...

It's scary Perl

autarch on 2006-03-15T17:27:01

I've looked at the code and it's pretty messy. Subroutines > 100 lines full of conditionals, HTML embedded in strings in code, and just generally ick. It looks like someone's first CGI program.