When Excel isn't Enough

摘要

Engineering users of math software are a diverse lot. The publishers of some of the more powerful math packages believe that most engineers who need to perform calculations and create graphical displays based on experimental data are more than happy to write programs in specialized languages to perform these tasks. But even these companies (several of them, anyway) acknowledge that they can't overlook many technical users' affinity for the calcu-lation-and-graphing-software market's 800-lb gorilla: Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet package.