ABSTRACT
L STYLE, this style uses tabular data, but with adifferent goal in mind. Rather than storing the data and querying it later, the goal here is to emulate the good old spreadsheets that have been used in accounting for hundreds of years. In accounting, the data is laid out in tables; while some columns have primitive data, other columns have compound data that results from some combination of other columns (totals, averages, etc.). Spreadsheets are used by everyone these days; however, not many realize that their underlying programming model is quite powerful, and a great example of the dataflow family of programming styles.
