[FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework)

[Phil Henshaw]

Owen types: 
> I'd like to get back to the task at hand -- evaluating rapid  
> prototyping environments.
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> BTW: I'm starting to think answer is that rapid prototyping has  
> splintered into pieces:
>    Excel: great for fast exploration of data
>    R: great for fast statistical evaluation
>    Gnuplot: great for fast and simple plotting of data
>    NetLogo: sorta smalltalk for simulation
>    Processing: Killer 2D/3D visualizations
>    Sh/Bash: Lightning fast trivial hacks for unix folks
>    Python: Scripting++ and more
>    JavaScript: Great access to browsers for both users & AJAX
>    .. and so on.
> So thus there really is an explosion of application specific  
> environments rather than the old smalltalk which was pretty universal.

Probably off topic, but has any of them solved my problem?   I can only
limp along with my live systems data analysis using home made lisp
routines on a graphics platform because of the standard grid model of
data that seems to be used elsewhere?    All my data streams come with
different, and often irregular, time periods and a vector graphics
program is the only one I can find that allows direct interrelationships
between sequences with different periods.  I'm also doing analysis of
various ways to reconstruct the points in-between the points.   Excel
and others have no place to put them.   Is there an affordable and
flexible stat package that treats all scales as continuities?

Phil