> you need a database, not a spreadsheet
Exactly, a custom structure, a custom object. That's my point. And that point is: the ability to specialize on custom structures, which are unavoidable if you are to keep your sanity.
Exactly, a custom structure, a custom object. That's my point. And that point is: the ability to specialize on custom structures, which are unavoidable if you are to keep your sanity.
You can't stop people from trying, but that's just the wrong paradigm to try those things. My point: we can still have an environment that can do all of these things. Embed a spreadsheet and interface a database textually. Why, is what emacs giving us really the end of it, you think? Because I don't.
In any case: there are quite obvious limitations, and, to me, they weren't very apparent when I started out in Emacs.