Comment Re:What's the difference? (Score 1) 168
Possibly, but we think there significant differences in our approach Resolver expresses a spreadsheet as a Python program. The code pane shows the entire spreadsheet as an executable Python program. User code, data and system code are cleanly modularized. The result, in our experience, is dramatic improvement in programmability and modeling power.
Certainly a nice console window and debug output window would improve, in our opinion, most existing spreadsheet applications. However, this will not fundamentally change the interaction patterns between the cells, user code, and application code, nor the architecture of the application. One of the reasons why we can deploy Resolver spreadsheets to the web so easily is that they are Python programs, one of the benefits of this architecture.
Certainly a nice console window and debug output window would improve, in our opinion, most existing spreadsheet applications. However, this will not fundamentally change the interaction patterns between the cells, user code, and application code, nor the architecture of the application. One of the reasons why we can deploy Resolver spreadsheets to the web so easily is that they are Python programs, one of the benefits of this architecture.
