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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:43:06 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: June meeting

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> you must have really enjoyed my getting blindsided
> by Peter Skye's use of unstructured data streams

dcl datastream unstructured;

> his purchase of a computer that a
> priori understood his processing needs

And I'm not going to tell you where I got it.

> furnishing him with desired information on demand.

Some training with the whip and it learned to obey.

> I don't quite have Peter's
> ability to be "on" continuously

It's the drugs, man. Happy to share . . .

> it may not be as obvious that a spreadsheet introduces
> [its own programming language], part textual, part visual.

Yes, thank you Lynn, that's absolutely correct. I've heard some people
argue otherwise, but the language of a spreadsheet is a method of
executing an algorithm.

At the Sundial SIG (two weeks hence) we'll continue the development of
John Hlavac's investment spreadsheet, with the goals of a) making its
usage as easy as possible and b) giving him all the displays he wants.

- Peter

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