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.

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/alan-kay-on-beyond-spreadsheets/

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.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2012001_kscript.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2013001_serializing.pdf

I like the idea, and I like the tightly limited scope. I'll think about this.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Joseph J Alotta joseph.alotta@gmail.comwrote:

It always bothered me, and still does that there isn't a Table object.

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.

I think all of us are spending our time packing things into Arrays of Arrays or Dictionaries of Dictionaries when the most simple structure of a Table is what we need.

Sincerely,

Joe.

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There is a Skeleton package in the Etoys inbox that has spreadsheet functions

http://source.squeak.org/etoysinbox

Also homepage

http://languagegame.org:8888/ggame/11

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joseph J Alotta joseph.alotta@gmail.comwrote:

It always bothered me, and still does that there isn't a Table object.

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.

I think all of us are spending our time packing things into Arrays of Arrays or Dictionaries of Dictionaries when the most simple structure of a Table is what we need.

Sincerely,

Joe.

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