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Comment Great Idea (Score 1) 168

This is a really interesting idea. If you think about it, every spreadsheet is a computer program. Excel is probably the most widely used development environment in the world. And it sucks. Big time. Watching the screencast, it looks like this is a great halfway house between bad, ad hoc, spreadsheet development, and a traditional IDE. The choice of Python as the language is a great idea - it's much, much easier for someone than VBA, and it's much more semantically powerful. I'd be interested in discovering whether it works existing Python and .NET libraries.
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Submission + - John Udell on the Geeks' Spreadsheet (amoral.org)

rcs1000 writes: "John Udell has a interesting article on a new type of spreadsheet: one targetted specifically at geeks. The skinny — if I get this right — is that any spreadsheet is actually a computer program, only in Udell's piece this is explicit (and IronPython rather than VBA), rather than implicit. There are some other cool things it does — allowing cells to contain objects, and allowing spreadsheets to back-end websites. The screencast is particularly fun."

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