Excel is indeed interesting.  Can google docs/libreoffice/OpenOffice do
something similar?
On Apr 21, 2013 2:52 AM, "John Nilsson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think Excel is interesting in this regard. The common idiom in excel is
> to employ user triggered code generation by fill formula to adapt the ui to
> dynamically resized collections.
> Not exactly automatic, but is it sufficiently trivial to group with or
> trivial ui operations such as scroll or resize window that might also be
> needed to not interfere with the display of the dynamic collection?
> BR
> John
> Den 21 apr 2013 07:59 skrev "John Carlson" <[email protected]>:
>
>> If you want a more complex use case,  create a loop 10 times around the
>> collection add loop to insert a calculator into the collection.
>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:48 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a semipractical use case: add 1 to the display in each of a
>>> dynamic collection of calculators (math domain widgets).  What can do this
>>> as end-user programming?  It's fairly obvious that a textual language can
>>> do this.  Can any graphical ones?  Can something like lively kernel do this
>>> by demonstration?  How about excel?  With a dynamic collection?  What will
>>> work on android jelly bean?  I'm away from my desktop right now.
>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:22 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking for systems like this I found app-inventor activity starter on
>>> my phone.  Has anyone tried this?
>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:14 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe the key to this is to create domain widgets.  I am not sure
>>>> if this needs to be something like etoys, maybe a combination between forth
>>>> and etoys.  I believe collections can make for interesting domain widgets.
>>>> I have only programmed systems with collections of text.  What systems work
>>>> on collections of domain widgets?
>>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:02 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, you're right.  The theory is coming up with a syntax free
>>>>> language.  Can you?
>>>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:00 AM, "David Barbour" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> How is that a theory? Sounds like a design principle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:42 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here's my theory: reduce arguing with the compiler to minimum.  This
>>>>>>> means reducing programmers' syntax errors.  Only add syntax to reduce
>>>>>>> errors (the famous FORTRAN do loop error).  The syntax that creates 
>>>>>>> errors
>>>>>>> should be removed.
>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 11:18 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think it's better to work from examples, ala JUnit and end-user
>>>>>>>> programming than come up with a theory that solves nothing.  One can
>>>>>>>> compare EGGG to GDL in scope and expressiveness.  One interesting part 
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> gaming is arguing about rules.  What computer systems do that?
>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 11:09 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Practice or practical?  Maybe there's space for practical theory,
>>>>>>>>> instead of relying on things that don't exist.  Why do we distinguish
>>>>>>>>> practice from theory?  Seems like a fallacy there.
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 10:51 PM, "David Barbour" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> only in practice
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:23 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]
>>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Take my word for it, theory comes down to Monday Night Football
>>>>>>>>>>> on ESPN.
>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 10:13 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I think that concepts in some sense transcend the universe.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Are there more digits in pi than there are atoms  in the universe? 
>>>>>>>>>>>>  I guess
>>>>>>>>>>>> we are asking if there are transcendental volumes which are bigger 
>>>>>>>>>>>> or more
>>>>>>>>>>>> complex than the universe.  If the universe contains the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> transcendental as
>>>>>>>>>>>> symbols then how many transcendental symbols are there?  I think 
>>>>>>>>>>>> you still
>>>>>>>>>>>> run into Russell's Paradox.
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 9:15 PM, "Simon Forman" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/20/13, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Do you need one symbol for the number infinity and another
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for denoting
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > that a set is inifinite?  Or do you just reason about the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> size of the set?
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Is there a difference between a set that is countably
>>>>>>>>>>>>> infinite and one that
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > isn't countable?  I barely know Russell's paradox... you're
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ahead of me.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, for what it's worth, quoting from Meguire's 2007
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Boundary
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Algebra: A Simple Notation for Boolean Algebra and the Truth
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Functors":
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Let U be the universal set, a,b∈U, and ∅ be the null set.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Then the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> columns headed by “Sets” show how the algebra of sets and the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> pa are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> equivalent.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Table 4-2. The 10 Nontrivial Binary Connectives (Functors).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name            Logic  Sets BA
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Alternation      a∨b   a∪b  ab
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conditional      a→b   a⊆b  (a)b
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Converse         a←b   a⊇b  a(b)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conjunction      a∧b   a∩b  ((a)(b))
>>>>>>>>>>>>>                        ___
>>>>>>>>>>>>> NOR              a↓b   a∪b   (ab)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>                        ___
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sheffer stroke   a|b   a∩b  (a)(b)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Biconditional    a↔b   a⊆b⊆a  (((a)b)(a(b))) -or- ((a)(b))(ab)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (Apologies if the Unicode characters got mangled!)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Check out http://www.markability.net/sets.htm also.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know much about set theory but I think the "Universal"
>>>>>>>>>>>>> set
>>>>>>>>>>>>> stands for the set of everything, no?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ~Simon
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> "The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather
>>>>>>>>>>>>> like that of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the prison that
>>>>>>>>>>>>> restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but
>>>>>>>>>>>>> incorporating the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous
>>>>>>>>>>>>> dreams, than
>>>>>>>>>>>>> like that of a man consciously awake to danger and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> opportunity."
>>>>>>>>>>>>> --H. P. Wells, "A Short History of the World"
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