Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~shihpinc/gneiss.html

by spion • 11 years ago

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jagtesh• 11 years ago

Is there a link where I can download this from?

ericHosick• 11 years ago

This is cool because one of the most difficult things to do in these types of systems is represent context of a program at any given time: especially when most programs maintain their context using the stack (plus quite a few other abstractions depending on the programming methodology).

Using a spreadsheet as your "context" is one way to solve this problem.

huangwei_chang• 11 years ago

Will it be open-sourced?

eob• 11 years ago

I got to see Kerry present this work at UIST last year and it was very cool. The spreadsheet provides a great visual way to interact with both the API you're pulling data from and the web app you're ultimately providing it to. With a bit of hierarchical spreadsheet support (take a look at Eirik Bakke's work from CSAIL), this could easily replace all API documentation with examples you can play with instead of protocol descriptions.

KC8ZKF• 11 years ago

I was hoping this was a programming language to help do spreadsheets, not the other way around.

What would such a language look like? R? Pandas?

robzyb• 11 years ago

I'm glad you asked ;)

https://github.com/robzyb/velis-gplv3/blob/master/velis/veli...

Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool

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