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"Incremental Computing" - A new term for me... I figured out how to do it a few days ago, after seeing this reference to MetaMine on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/j94lgd/metamin...

In Metamine,

  = signifies Equation, a persistent assignment. Any update to the value on the  after which any change to the value results in all dependent values being recomputed.
  := signifies a standard one shot assignment.
The runtime behavior is easy enough to implement, less than 100 lines of Pascal. I worried that the code for a language that supported it would be unreadable, like FORTH, only worse. Imagine if Excel spreadsheets were plain text source code.


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