[ssivark]

The problem with regular programming is that you can see the code but not the data, and the problem with spreadsheets is that you can see the data but not the code.

You might be on to something with the “apply” idea. What if there was a split screen where you could see both code/operations and data and could mix them together with all the transparency of a spreadsheet? macros would just exploit code as data?

For a tangent that might spark interesting ideas, check out this structure editor project in Racket (a lisp) https://github.com/disconcision/fructure