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There is an interesting scheme based spreadsheet called "siag" out
there ("Scheme In A Grid").
See:
http://www.edu.stockholm.se/siag/
Personally, I think that the direction SIAG takes is quite
interesting, but that the project needs a bunch of work.
.pm
Klaus Schilling writes:
>
> The FSF announcement mentioned some time ago, that the spreadsheet tool 'Oleo
'
> might soon use guile as extension language.
>
> If Emacs is going to use guile sometimes as extension language, will then
> Guile-Oleo become obsolete, as there is already a Spreadsheet calculator
> written as Emacs script ('Dismal') ? Or is it worth anyways to develop
> applications with guile-extensibility outside the Emacs, even when copy-
> lefted Emacs modes with about the same functionality already exist?
>
> How far should the usage of Scheme go? Should it only replace the native
> .rc -files of an application, or should a great deal C-code be replaced with
> Scheme scripts as well? Which role does the module system and hobbit play
> when it comes to guilification of application software?
>
> Klaus Schilling