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I had very different expectations coming into this thread when the term “spreadsheets” was used.

The term “table” is already established for this domain, for example in RDBMS.

What you’re building is more inline with that verses the established definition of a spreadsheet.

Thank you for the feedback. Given all the feedback from the others, and now yours, that the word is creating wrong expectations. I am leaning toward just changing it soon and seeing from there.

As a language author and open source maintainer myself, I do sympathise with how hard it is to name things.

Keep up the good work though.

Thanks! Well, I name things and try to use them, and usually they cristalize, if not before, then through feedback of others :).

I saw Murex Shell ... cool!

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