On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]>wrote:
> This isn't Excel, but in my own spreadsheet, I do have a feature that turns > on dependencies in the entire spreadsheet. Been thinking about highlighting > those for a single cell at a time as well. But even with Excel, it wouldn't > be terribly difficult to analyze its contents with one of many Excel-reading > libraries out-there and spit out a report. Could even develop tools like > findbugs to do some automated code analysis or best practices adherence > checks. But really, Excel is just a red herring of a tangent in all this. > I brought up spreadsheets not in the context of Excel specifically, but as a > general model of computing that can be used with other programming > languages, environments, and usage patterns. > Could you expand a bit, then? Because from a theoretical standpoint, a spreadsheet is just a bunch of cells that interact with each other in a two dimensional space. I hardly see anything interesting there... -- Cédric -- 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.
