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Spreadsheets are a specialized spatial DSL. They are phenomenally successful, and have been around for more than 40 years.
by robotresearcher 5y ago
Spreadsheets are a specialized spatial DSL. They are phenomenally successful, and have been around for more than 40 years.
- breck 5y agoYup. The most successful PL by pretty much 2 OOMs (1B spreadsheet users vs 20M JS programmers). I think the future will be the best ideas from traditional 1D programming languages merged into a spatial hybrid like spreadsheets.
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- enchiridion 5y agoSeems like notebook programming is a trend in this directing.
- keithalewis 5y agoA purely function language people can understand and use to solve problems they find important without dealing with their IT department. What a subversive notion!
- 11235813213455 5y agoSpreadsheets look 3-dimendional to me, but the first 2 dimensions are just about data (rows/columns), the 3rd dimension is the language itself (cell value), even though you can specify data ranges in the cell value, the language still looks 1D to me
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