And a TableMorph could complete the package. It's something I've thought about for a while too. I wish there was more information about Analyst around, I get the sense that a Smalltalk spreadsheet could be crazy powerful.<div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/alan-kay-on-beyond-spreadsheets/">http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/alan-kay-on-beyond-spreadsheets/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Lately I've been following the VPRI papers around functional reactive programming (FRP) which might also be worth a look if you're thinking about this stuff.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2012001_kscript.pdf">http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2012001_kscript.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2013001_serializing.pdf">http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2013001_serializing.pdf</a><br>
<br>I like the idea, and I like the tightly limited scope. I'll think about this.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Joseph J Alotta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joseph.alotta@gmail.com" target="_blank">joseph.alotta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It always bothered me, and still does that there isn't a Table object.<br>
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Most of my data has more than one key and more than one data items, just like a table in a spreadsheet, or a table in SQL.<br>
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I think all of us are spending our time packing things into Arrays of Arrays or Dictionaries of Dictionaries when the most<br>
simple structure of a Table is what we need.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Joe.<br>
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