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Looking at the example video provided I feel like I must be missing something; it doesn't really resemble a spreadsheet to me.
by cwyers 12y ago
Looking at the example video provided I feel like I must be missing something; it doesn't really resemble a spreadsheet to me.
- mpweiher 12y agoYep. That's something I see a lot when looking at stuff from the FP community: map a commonly used term onto something that is easy to do with FP, losing almost all relevant properties. Then claim how the ease of doing <commonly used term> in FP shows the superiority of the FP approach.
- davorak 12y agoDo you have any examples I can look at?
- davorak 12y agoIs it the limited number of cells that makes it not resemble a spreadsheet or another feature?
- cwyers 12y agoThe limited number of cells, the use of up/down increments to change values instead of typing, the lack of row/column coordinate system, the lack of any kind of an apparent way to operate on multiple cells at once, the fact that the cells don't actually look like cells... it's a lot easier to come up with ways it doesn't resemble a spreadsheet than ways that it does.
- davorak 12y agoSure it is a proof of concept and is about the spreadsheet computational model not making a full fledged spreadsheet application like Microsoft excel. I thought you meant you saw some significant barriers to a full implementation or something fundamentally different in the underlying model that was not spreadsheet like.