Towards Wide-Spectrum Spreadsheet Computing

with the recent additions of dynamic arrays and user-defined functions, Microsoft Research has taken two important steps towards the unification of spreadsheets and general purpose programming environments. We offer our perspective on that quest, reiterating that the full potential of the spreadsheet computing paradigm can only be realized after removing the entanglement of the computational model and its visualization. Our experimental findings suggest this can be done without detracting from the live and user-friendly nature of the spreadsheet programming experience.