RE: I need an idea. I know you have some. Give. (Casey Ransberger)

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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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.
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Casey Ransberger wrote:

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.
  

Check out Spreadsheet at http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~StephaneDucasse/PetitsBazars.
Start with SpreadsheetGridMorphTest>>testExternalControl.

some background... http://forum.world.st/Spreadsheet-widget-td4663257.html

cheers -ben

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 [hidden email]wrote:

  

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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Ben Coman wrote:

Casey Ransberger wrote:
> 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.
>   
Check out Spreadsheet at 
http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~StephaneDucasse/PetitsBazars.
Start with SpreadsheetGridMorphTest>>testExternalControl.

some background... http://forum.world.st/Spreadsheet-widget-td4663257.html

cheers -ben
  

I forgot to add, I thought it would be interesting to marry that with Sven Van Caekenberghe's NeoCSV [1] for data import,
and Fuel or STON based native save/load.

[1] http://forum.world.st/ANN-NeoCSV-td4636208.html

> 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 [hidden email]wrote:
>
>   
>> 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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>>
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