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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by tlarkworthy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:08AM (#25045504)
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/saas-tutorial
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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by KMag on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:50AM (#25045859)
Absolutely beautiful! It's not immediately obvious to me how to import an Excel spreadsheet, but something like Observable or AirTable is where spreadsheets need to migrate. Lazily evaluated dataflow like Observable is the right paradigm.
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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by tlarkworthy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:09AM (#25046057)
wow it be crazy if you could embed a spreadsheet and trigger observable cells from embedded spreadsheet cells, giving you the opportunity to refactor out the logic from the spreadsheet slowly.
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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by dmaevsky on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:33AM (#25047050)
This is NUTS!!!

Exactly the example I was looking for! Mind if I re-implement all this on the Ellx platform (https://ellx.io)?

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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by tlarkworthy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:00AM (#25047415)
No problem it's to help people
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