And a TableMorph could complete the package. It's something I've thought about for a while too. I wish there was more information about Analyst around, I get the sense that a Smalltalk spreadsheet could be crazy powerful.
http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/alan-kay-on-beyond-spreadsheets/ Lately I've been following the VPRI papers around functional reactive programming (FRP) which might also be worth a look if you're thinking about this stuff. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2012001_kscript.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2013001_serializing.pdf I like the idea, and I like the tightly limited scope. I'll think about this. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Joseph J Alotta <[email protected]>wrote: > It always bothered me, and still does that there isn't a Table object. > > Most of my data has more than one key and more than one data items, just > like a table in a spreadsheet, or a table in SQL. > > I think all of us are spending our time packing things into Arrays of > Arrays or Dictionaries of Dictionaries when the most > simple structure of a Table is what we need. > > Sincerely, > > Joe. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > -- Casey Ransberger
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