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Graphical definitions: expanding spreadsheet languages through direct manipulation and gestures
1998
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Until now, attempts to extend the one-way constraint evaluation model of the spreadsheet paradigm to support complex objects, such as colored circles or userdefined types, have led to approaches featuring either a direct way of creating objects graphically or strong compatibility with the spreadsheet paradigm, but not both. This inability to conveniently go beyond numbers and strings without straying outside the spreadsheet paradigm has been a limiting factor in the applicability of
doi:10.1145/274444.274445
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