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by grayrest 1837 days ago
Every time someone mentions extended spreadsheets I like to bring up Resolver One. In the mid 00s it was a spreadsheet interface in .Net that generated python modules under the hood running on IronPython. As a side effect you could import sections of one spreadsheet into another spreadsheet, go behind the scenes and edit the Python to connect to a DB or run arbitrary code, generate GUIs using the .Net facilities, etc. I thought it was neat. Unfortunately they never got traction and as far as I know they were aquihired by a financial company that used it internally.