[PRL] The Importance of Excel

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:

> Which immediately leads me back to development environments: wouldn't it 
> be interesting to get a spreadsheet-like UI template constructed 
> (semi)automatically from a Data Definition? Smalltalk's 
> "inspectors"/"explorers" and their successors approach this, but haven't 
> taken the step of integrating spreadsheet-like abilities on top of the 
> presentation of the domain objects.


Absolutely. See follow-up talk at ESOP @ York to ICFP "Financial Contracts" paper from 2001ish.