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Can we get a "build your own spreadsheet" next?
by airstrike 4y ago
Can we get a "build your own spreadsheet" next?
- superlopuh 4y agoSpreadsheet Implementation Technology exists, although I cannot give a very strong recommendation
- airstrike 4y agoThank you!
- emmanueloga_ 4y ago"A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725387 Not a book, but. :-)
- kagevf 4y agoHere’s one in scheme: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch24/spread.html http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch24/spread.html It’s ... part of a book! :)
- bhawks 4y agoSpreadsheets have been teaching the fundamentals of functional programming to the unwashed masses for decades. Couldn't be a better story.
- kagevf 4y agoAnd now it’s come full circle with scheme in excel https://www.codemag.com/Article/2207071/The-Excellent-Schemer https://www.codemag.com/Article/2207071/The-Excellent-Scheme... ... it’s a commercial plugin, though
- layer8 4y agoTurbo Pascal came with a public-domain sample spreadsheet implementation (CALC.PAS aka MicroCalc) since version 1.0 (from 1983, 40 years ago!). Here is the version from Turbo Pascal 3 on GitHub: https://github.com/hindermath/MicroCalc https://github.com/hindermath/MicroCalc