Re: Advice on SQL and records

From: Paul <paul_at_see.my.sig.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:12:31 +0100
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"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't agree that we could visualize just as easily horizontally
> as vertically. Consider the spreadsheet, which works just as well
> with a horizontal as vertical layout, and yet how many spreadsheets
> have you seen that use the one format over the other?

That's down to our writing system - if we had adopted some Asian form of writing, we might be more comfortable with up-down rather than side-2-side.

If we had all remained Jews, then we might have had our spreadsheets going right-2-left rather than l-2-r.

Out of curiousity, what do the Arab and Hebrew versions of Excel do?

Paul...

> Marshall

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