Hi I had a similar reaction the first time I played around with a spreadsheet many years ago (Lotus 123.) Of course, spreadsheets are now old hat, but I know someone who still does everything in spreadsheets (letters, tenders, bom's, certificates, quotes, accounts, wages, notes etc.)
I always wished that any code fragment (in any language) could be placed into a cell though :-) regards On Monday, 8 February 2016 16:07:23 UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > I was struck by how these rather nicely expressed words might equally > apply to the experience of using TiddlyWiki. It’s actually somebody talking > about a specialised programming language for "live coding” musical > performances: > > > Tidal is an invitation, a map with many areas marked "here be > dragons..." It's > > a master carpenter's tool kit, but, also a heap of unorganized Legos. > Tidal is > > a playground where both discovery and questions arise simultaneously. > It's an > > intriguing, frustrating mute, a sly cipher, a breathing mandala, a dose > of > > friendly venom. It's a supreme blank slate, a piece of graph paper with > a Z > > axis. A series of amusements and also wretched dead-ends. Tidal is 101 > > unexpectedly popping balloons, a lucid dream. It is a bicycle that once > you > > learn to ride it, reveals that it can FLY. > > > > Tidal is the thing I think about almost more often than anything else. > It is > > impressive enough to sufficiently motivate an old man who yells at > clouds to > > learn completely new things (writing code) and learn more about things > ignored > > thus far (music fundamentals). > > > > Tidal is amazing: I don't know what it is. > > Source: http://lurk.org/groups/tidal/messages/post/54YnfgMDakbh7KgPG05Vc2 > > I like the idea that TiddlyWiki is part of a tradition of tools that have > the quality of being “generative”: they are meta-tools let you build other, > specialised tools for the task at hand. Other examples would be Microsoft > Access and Apple’s Hypercard. > > I think it’s that quality that gives rise to the hall-of-mirrors sensation > of dizzying possibility that has become familiar as people talk about their > experience of using TiddlyWiki. > > What do you think? Does TiddlyWiki feel like that to you? Are there other > tools you’ve used that have the same quality? Are there situations where > “here be dragons” might scare people off? > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/64596752-302d-4bda-ba57-3b0981fab0d9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
