Articles filed in category 'Scheme'

  • The Excellent Schemer

    By: Bob Calco

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - July/August

    Have you hoped for a good replacement for VBA for old versions of Office, but with the power of the .NET Framework and available to use with Microsoft 365? Try Accelerate's Visual Scheme for Applications (VSA), which you can use to create customer functions and more in Excel for Microsoft 365. Bob finds that the Scheme tool makes writing user-defined functions in Excel easy.

  • Dynamic Languages 101

    By: Ted Neward

    Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2012 - May/June

    Much hoopla has been generated across the community about dynamic languages; much of it is spoken in the same glowing terms normally reserved for unicorns and rainbows. Some of it is deserved, some of it isn’t. All of it seems to surround two languages—JavaScript and Ruby—but in fact, several other languages, three of which I’ll present here, offer some distinctly interesting and useful features.