https://github.com/johari/minicell

(wip) A rich visicalc dialect with new datatypes inside cells. Recalc or die. 🏴‍☠️
https://github.com/johari/minicell

build-system elm haskell shake visicalc-dialect

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(wip) A rich visicalc dialect with new datatypes inside cells. Recalc or die. 🏴‍☠️

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/johari/minicell
• Owner: johari
• Created: 2018-07-31T18:18:45.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-02T02:56:09.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-12-14T07:34:31.083Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: build-system, elm, haskell, shake, visicalc-dialect
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.04 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 63
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md

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README

        
# Minicell

![Minicell screenshot (2018)](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/static/screenshot.png)

Minicell is a rich spreadsheet enrivonment with first-class support for new values inside cells. This includes, but is not limited to

* simple shapes and diagrams along with some geometrical transformations,

* values that flow in time,

* networks and graphs, along with some formulas.

This makes it easy for [end-user programmers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_development) to perform basic media manipulation tasks or find optimum answers to graph modeling problems

including solving optimization problems such as shortest path problem or maximum flow.

# Hacking

* [Install guide](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/INSTALL.md) and [Changelog](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)

* [Evaluator](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/src/Spreadsheet/Evaluator/Parser.hs), where most of the IO in backend happens (I must rename `Parser.hs` to `Interpreter.hs`)

    * [Implementation of `=X`](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/e90411cce6aa0b0f39e9f6fb844085681778085b/src/Spreadsheet/Evaluator/Parser.hs#L255-L283)

* [SimpleServer.hs](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/src/SimpleServer.hs)

* [Basic types in Backend](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/src/Spreadsheet/Types.hs)

* [Basic types in Frontend](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/src/Spreadsheet/Types.elm)

* [Spreadsheet interface](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/src/Spreadsheet.elm)

* [Makefile](https://github.com/johari/minicell/blob/master/Makefile)

# See also

* [Calc Intelligence](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/calc-intelligence/) from MSR Cambridge

* [FlashExtract](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apTsnpsPEds)

* [FlashRelate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Dhf4Tmp8c)

* [ExceLint](https://github.com/ExceLint/ExceLint)

* [VCF East 10 - History of VisiCalc - Bob Frankston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L2jRc6prEw)

* [Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet (2017)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvbDiJZpy0)

* [PARALLEL PAGES, VISIBLY CONNECTED](https://youtu.be/VOmm8ic4Eos?t=239)

    * Simply, [Visibly connected documents](https://youtu.be/VOmm8ic4Eos?t=716)

* ["What about graph practice, eh?"](https://twitter.com/tikhonjelvis/status/1070190089345462274)