Pity they met
If Wang had never met Russell Artzt then the world might have been spared Crap Alot.
Charles Wang, the cofounder of Computer Associates – latterly CA Technologies – has died of lung cancer at the age of 74, an attorney representing his family has confirmed. The Chinese-born software baron died at his mansion in Oyster Bay, New York on Sunday 21 October, legal aide John McEntee said via email. In the missive, …
According to my sources (Wikipedia, Google Books, guessing), SuperCalc 4 was indeed released by CA - they bought Sorcim in 1985, and SC4 came out in '86. Wikipedia does say, though, that Sorcim operated as "a largely autonomous division". In any event, I'd guess the Sorcim developers, not any non-Sorcim people at CA, deserve the credit.
CA's reputation for buying software firms and then letting the products languish is not wholly deserved - I myself have gotten them to fix bugs or add minor features on one or two occasions, and I've seen other enhancements in various iterations of some of their products. But it was never primarily an R&D firm.
It is a pity that the ungodly mess that is Excel drove competing spreadsheet packages out of business. (On the rare occasions that I want a spreadsheet for personal use, I use OO/LO Calc; but that's not much of an improvement on Excel.)
I have fond memories of SC4 - used it from around 88-94. It wouldn't take much to refresh my grey matter on those slash commands. Simple, intuitive, elegant - just like software should be, unlike that dispicable mess that drove it out of business and still plauges the world today.