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In article <2013@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> rhys@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
> If I go into a library and walk up to the shelf marked "Mathematical Logic"
> (marked in Dewey Decimal or whatever), then the books I find there will
> be about the various aspects of "Mathematical Logic" and just that.

Most will. Many will have digressions into other aspects of mathematics,
logic, Zen, etcetera...

> However, if I walk into a computer store and walk up to the shelf marked
> "Spreadsheets" I'll also find programs that double up as wordprocessors,
> databases, desktop publishers, comms programs, ... in addition to being
> a spreadsheet.

Yes, but they are basically spreadsheets. All these "integrated programs"
have a central model that describes their behaviour, and a bunch of
extra tools that are stuck on the side.

They're also a dying fad. The only point to things like Lotus is to make
up for limitations in MS-DOS (single tasking, no IPC, etc). Better operating
environments will replace the swiss-army-knife program.

> Maybe it's time we retrained programmers to write programs to perform
> a single task, not control the world!  :-)

Start by boycotting MS-DOS.
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