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# Scheme In A Grid


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# Scheme In A Grid

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|  [**Siag Office**][2]

**Scheme In A Grid**

[**Can Your Spreadsheet Do This?**][3]

[**Screenshots**][4]

[**String Handling**][5]

[**File Formats**][6]

[**External Programs**][7]

[**Selection**][8]

[**Styles**][9]

[**Online Documentation**][10]

 |  ![Siag][11] Siag is a spreadsheet based on X and Scheme. I originally wrote it out of frustration with the fact that almost no free, good looking applications were available for Linux. It is based on my old program Calc, which I started writing in the late -80's. 

The program has existed in several incarnations: text-based curses for SunOS, text-based hardcoded vt52 for Atari TOS, GEM-based for Atari, Turbo C for DOS, Xlib-based for Linux and now Xt-based for Linux (or Unix, really). 

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Sources for Siag are available [here][12]. 

[Click here for screenshots.][4]

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[Features you don't usually find in a spreadsheet][3]

[A few screenshots][4]

[The online documentation][10]

## Recent Features

* Support for the Mysql database. [Screenshot][13]
* Support for the Lago database. 
* Download stock qoutes from Yahoo. [Screenshot][14]
* $A$1 style references, which are not updated when cells are moved. 
* Examples for all functions. 
* Hundreds of functions, many Excel compatible, all documented in the function reference. 
* Arbitrary precision integer functions. 
* Arbitrary precision floating-point functions. 
* Rudimentary loading of ABS files. 
* New operators ** (power) and (quotient). 
* Complex numbers; example in complex.siag. 
* Matrix functions; example in matrix.siag. 
* New or updated documentation, automatically generated from the source. 
* "C" interpreter translates expressions to Scheme rather than evaluating the expression itself.   | 
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[Ulric Eriksson][15] 2000-12-07   | 

[1]: http://siag.nu/siag/siag.jpg
[2]: http://siag.nu/index.shtml
[3]: http://siag.nu/canyour.html
[4]: http://siag.nu/screenshots.html
[5]: http://siag.nu/strings.html
[6]: http://siag.nu/fileformats.html
[7]: http://siag.nu/external.html
[8]: http://siag.nu/selection.html
[9]: http://siag.nu/styles.html
[10]: http://siag.nu/online-docs/siag/siag.html
[11]: http://siag.nu/siag2.gif
[12]: ftp://siag.nu/pub/siag/
[13]: http://siag.nu/mysql.png
[14]: http://siag.nu/stock.png
[15]: mailto:ulric%40siag.nu