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Fixing this situation is supposed to be the promise of "reactive" notebooks like Julia's Pluto.

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  That's one answer to the problem, but not the only answer or necessarily a complete answer... That is, people forget that the really special thing about spreadsheets is not the grid organization but the hidden graph organization of computations. I would point to this as a product that was ahead of its time and still seems without peer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Solver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Solver Another challenge Jupyter has is the conflict between "a way to present a report" and "a way to write a script that generates a report" and everything in between.
  • eigenspace 4y ago
    > That's one answer to the problem, but not the only answer or necessarily a complete answer... That is, people forget that the really special thing about spreadsheets is not the grid organization but the hidden graph organization of computations. Uh did you mean this the other way around or something? Reactive notebooks like Pluto only address the hidden graph organization of computations, they don't address grid organization at all.