I believe what I've just described amounts to a whole paradigm shift in programming, . . .

Only if you discount at least a decade of testing methodologies. Recording scripts is the primary way of testing GUIs.

The reason why spreadsheets are more popular than Perl isn't the interactivity - it's the simplicity. This is the reason why I haven't finished my simplified version of Quicken and gotten my family's books off of a spreadsheet. It just takes too damn long to write the infrastructure a spreadsheet gives you. Once you do that, adding new features is a lot easier. But, getting to that point requires more tuits than I have right now.

That said, spreadsheets don't have the same raw power as a well-written infrastructure, in any language. Plus, you can't run your spreadsheet in a batch mode. Remember - 99.999999% of all data manipulations are handled in a batch mode because they need to be. (Credit card transactions, for instance.) That's the entire point of computers - to do the repeatable tasks so that humans don't have to. They are tools - nothing more.

Meditate a little more on the topic, focusing on where your impetus comes from and how that relates to the general tasks of computing. Remember that the largest consumer of computing power for a very long time was the financial industry.

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Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose

I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

In reply to Re: Spreadsheets, HTTP::Recorder and interactivity by dragonchild
in thread Spreadsheets, HTTP::Recorder and interactivity by zby

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