Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014...
by mamcx on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:51AM
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> I've spent the past 10 years maintaining and improving a finance-centric lazily-evaluated dataflow language with integrated distributed NoSQL database for a Fortune 500 financial services company
I think you nail the fundamentals here. I also dream of a access+excel kind of full app but think need to start with the base language (that I doing at http://tablam.org). You need to align the base language + the rest of tool to make easier to scale up whatever the customers create (at least, you can copy paste whatever them wrote and debug it using the same tools as professionals, instead of reverse engineer the kirks of excel...)
I think you nail the fundamentals here. I also dream of a access+excel kind of full app but think need to start with the base language (that I doing at http://tablam.org). You need to align the base language + the rest of tool to make easier to scale up whatever the customers create (at least, you can copy paste whatever them wrote and debug it using the same tools as professionals, instead of reverse engineer the kirks of excel...)