Except for the ability to perform circular recalculation, I believe that the closest programming analogy to a spreadsheet is a functional programming language. Check out Haskell (or LISP or Erlang) to do what you describe.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of François Pinard Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:36 AM To: Alberto Monteiro Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Excel (off-topic, sort of) [Alberto Monteiro] > Maybe I'll write a letter to Santa Claus [there are people > who write to congressman; they must have more faith than me]. :-) :-) > I wish a language where I can write > a = b + 10 > and then when I write > a = 20 > the language automatically assigns b = 10. METAFONT does this (and consequently, Metapost as well). I still remember my surprise when I found out that Donald Knuth resorts to such sophisticated machinery for the sole purpose of designing font characters. Knuth surely did many wonderful things :-). -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. *********************************************************************** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, soli...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
