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Generalizing the Sheet Language Paradigm

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Spreadsheets offer a means of writing certain types of application programs quickly, interactively, and with minimum training. In fact, spreadsheet users probably do not consider their work as programming. Yet, they are expressing a computation, the process of which is programming, and the medium for such expression is a programming language.

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    1. Allen L. Ambler
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    1. Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 724, Japan

      Tadao Ichikawa

    2. Swedish Defence Research Establishment, S-581 11, Linköping, Sweden

      Erland Jungert

    3. Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, USA

      Robert R. Korfhage

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    Ambler, A.L. (1990). Generalizing the Sheet Language Paradigm. In: Ichikawa, T., Jungert, E., Korfhage, R.R. (eds) Visual Languages and Applications. Languages and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0569-9_17

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