What I find interesting about Excel is that it's the world's most popular programming environment, perhaps because it's so hopelessly limited.
2011/1/5 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > > > 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. > -- 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.
