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Re:Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool by ericHosick on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @04:24PM (#10081911)
This is cool because one of the most difficult things to do in these types of systems is represent context of a program at any given time: especially when most programs maintain their context using the stack (plus quite a few other abstractions depending on the programming methodology).

Using a spreadsheet as your "context" is one way to solve this problem.

Re:Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool by jagtesh on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @03:22PM (#10081519)
Is there a link where I can download this from?
Re:Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool by eob on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @05:06PM (#10082190)
I got to see Kerry present this work at UIST last year and it was very cool. The spreadsheet provides a great visual way to interact with both the API you're pulling data from and the web app you're ultimately providing it to. With a bit of hierarchical spreadsheet support (take a look at Eirik Bakke's work from CSAIL), this could easily replace all API documentation with examples you can play with instead of protocol descriptions.
Re:Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool by huangwei_chang on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @04:49PM (#10082096)
Will it be open-sourced?
Re:Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool by KC8ZKF on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @08:19PM (#10083015)
I was hoping this was a programming language to help do spreadsheets, not the other way around.

What would such a language look like? R? Pandas?

Re:Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool by robzyb on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @01:05AM (#10083765)