Claim: Excel is the dual of a programming language. In Excel you see the data but hide the logic. In a PL it's the opposite.
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Looking forward to seeing your wireframes! No for real, pretty please?
I'm genuinely pondering whether there are structural reasons preventing this?
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My gut is we don't have both yet just because of the immaturity of the domain. Notebooks are a step in this direction.
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I came across this the other day, which sorta fits:https://blog.janestreet.com/introducing-incremental/ …
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Great find, thanks. Lots of interesting references in the comments too. I think there is a lot of untapped potential in this kind of approach.
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there are a lot of dimensions there. spreadsheets by default obscure the code dimension. some do highlighting tricks to try to show hidden structure. but yeah maybe breaking out of the grid, like notebooks as mentioned?
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I want to break out of the grid *and* the command line. Examples: https://vimeo.com/172032647 , https://vimeo.com/181856703 .
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Whoah this is awesome. At about halfway, love "gisting" functions. Also great how the data view changes to show its governing function - that's brilliant.
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And symbolic calculus!
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I think the constraint is that you have to be able to express your program in purely declarative form. If you can do that, then you can do Excel-style programming.
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I think you just explained the popularity of SQL
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Generally we don’t have the data available or the IO events continually happening when programming. Some hybrid of notebooks and excel and TDD though?
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I could see developing UI components this way or other event driven stuff
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