Thanks for the response. All of these pain points are definitely true, in my experience. I'm working on a database-backed spreadsheet product too, and it sound

Thanks for the response. All of these pain points are definitely true, in my experience. I'm working on a database-backed spreadsheet product too, and it sounds like we have very similar ideas about the weaknesses of the current spreadsheet model. Our output product is still 'rich' spreadsheets rather than apps, though, and while we have a programmable VM and data processing language our language looks much more Excel than prolog or SQL. We also were really interested in the forms/3 research during our early development which is what prompted me to post.