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pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au writes:

>WingZ

>Is anyone who bought WingZ still using it? Or have we all drifted back to 
>Excel/ Cricket Graph/ other graphing programs?

>worse than Excel.

>Where is a 'scientific spreadsheet'? 

Well, I have been using Trapeze for several years and have found it
much better for my purposes than Excel.  I have only used the demos for
WingZ, so can not comment too much on it, but it looked like it had more
of the whiz-bang business graphics than scientific/engineering type
stuff.  When Trapeze is not enough, I use Igor  (you should see the
ternary phase diagrams!). Note that these programs will not help you
with 3-d perspective plots.  If you have enough money, or can put
together a bulk education order (much cheaper), try MatLab.

If you ever missed the functionality of APL (can you say `linear algebra'
and smile?) and wanted the ease of using the Mac, try some of these programs.
You might have trouble getting Trapeze, but version 2.1 still runs fine
on a MacIIx and System 6.0.5. with MultiFinder.

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>Phil Ryan                                         
>ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
>Canberra, Australia                               
>pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au   phone:(61 6) 249 4678   fax:(61 6) 249 0741      

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