On Jan 3, 2:36 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 January 2011 18:42, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Indeed. That's why I said "spreadsheet-like". As an author and heavy user > > of a Java spreadsheet app, I've been thinking about the next step for it and > > extra dimensions does seem appealing. > > By "spreadsheet-like" you, presumably, mean "declarative"
Not really, thought that is certainly a big part of it. Spreadsheets also give you ability to distribute/persist data with algorithms (or to think of it in other ways, algorithm with state), visualization of data and algorithm dependencies (a king of in-place IDE), a novel kind of API. In a certain sense, they come very close to AST-level programming, where we can manipulate well-structured components of a program with immediate feedback as to how it all fits. Spreadsheets can also be used as a continuous integration/testing environment for algorithms. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
