... The spreadsheets software began its widespread use in business and finance (accounting for example), and so it is placed within the Office Software section. Certainly it is also used a lot by scientists/engineers because of its capabilities of easy manipulation/computation of data and generation of simple plots. ... Search SAL: . ... Maxwell's Lemur -- a spreadsheet using Guile and Gtk. mc -- Lotus compatible character based spreadsheet. moodss -- a modular object oriented dynamic spreadsheet. ...