A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet(technicallywewrite.com)

40 pointsby rbanffyvor 7 Monaten2 comments

A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet

https://technicallywewrite.com/2025/12/16/lanpar

2 comments

N_Lensvor 7 Monaten

The article highlights that LANPAR could handle forward references (cells referencing other cells not yet calculated) through iterative evaluation loops. This seems mundane now, but was genuinely novel in 1970 and didn't reappear in spreadsheets until Lotus 1-2-3 in the 1980s.

jeffhuysvor 7 Monaten

Yea, I just read that too.