alt Hacker NewsEven LaTeX just brute-forces dependencies such as building a table of contents, index, and footnote references by running it a few times until everything stabilizes.
Even LaTeX just brute-forces dependencies such as building a table of contents, index, and footnote references by running it a few times until everything stabilizes.
VisiCalc didn't do this, though. It just recalculated once, and if there were errors you had to notice them and manually trigger another recalc.