Sheet, a spreadsheet program in 217 bytes of javascript

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/29/sheet-a-spreadsheet-program-i.html

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If I understand the source (and I don’t necessarily) it looks like the eval() call is being used as a shortcut to arbitrarily convert strings of artihmetic operators (or any other paperclip you want to jam in that socket) into functional javascript. This seems…well, I guess that’s why they call golf The Most Dangerous Game.

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Only thing missing is a decoder ring.

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You’ll never guess what happens if you type
=window.location="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
into one of the boxes…

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What the sheet?

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Nice. Type this into one of the boxes:

=+alert('hi!')

One of the less nefarious things you can do.

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That’s good!

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Yes, it’s like “how’s it parsing and calculating functions?” and then it’s like “oh.”

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Here and I thought Golf was the most dangerous game because many of its players are nearing death anyways.

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It would be even smaller, and more cryptic, if it was written in APL.

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Please tell me I get Rickrolled

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Earlier this year I had to implement a real spreadsheet like interface into an internal project at work, wading through many JavaScript spreadsheet in X lines/characters posts got annoying fast.

It was things like this that gave Perl a bad name in the late '90s, obfuscated golfed code that violated ever best practice just to cut out a few steps. Maybe golfing code is just the Bell-bottoms for programmers, we all know they are dumb and bad, but every few decades they just seem to need to come around again.

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I know they make perfect intuitive sense to hard math/CS people, but coming from an animation/web development background, Python list comprehensions always make me feel like I’m playing a little round of office puttputt right in the middle of a day…

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How in the magical what-the-what-balls?

???

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Well that’s fucking annoying as all get out.

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Glad I made your day. :smiley:

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Well, that was a bit dry and academic. But I suppose erudite folk’ll like it.

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Code Golf is a perfectly fine hobby, and a great recreational exercise. Leave your clubs at home when you go to work though, lest your coworkers want to beat you with them.

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I’d prefer they added a few more bytes to make it actually human readable.

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Not properly commented. C-

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