> Conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas, an...

		dfee on Dec 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would... > Conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas, and notes. Improv separated these concepts and used the cells only for input and output data. Formulas, macros and other objects existed outside the cells, to simplify editing and reduce errors. Improv used named ranges for all formulas, as opposed to cell addresses. Amazing.

Sounds very similar to how Coda works: https://coda.io