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[Discuss] Frustration with SQL and Spreadsheets



On 4/15/26 10:55 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> I don't see any obvious
> down-sides to using a SQL or SQL-adjacent database for the backing
> store. Just that nobody I know of except Javelin (which I learned of
> today) ever did.

I can imagine it suggesting the user interface not present the world as 
a single matrix of cells.

Wasn't there an early Macintosh product that was a something like that? 
A distant and vague memory?


-kb




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