Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome

Nerval's Lobster writes "'Building on many lessons learned from spreadsheets, functional languages and model-driven application development environments, Reactive Programming (RP) is a recent approach to creating applications,' Val Huber, CTO of Espresso Logic, writes in a new column. 'In the RP paradigm, you can create complex applications from a series of simple declarative statements. Many of the details of implementation and work of gluing together various sorts of application constructs can be hidden because of the declarative approach.' He goes on to argue that RP makes maintenance easier and applications more adaptable, because RP offers automatic dependency management and reuse; at the same time, he also acknowledges that RP has some shortcomings. What say you?"

I for one would love to see DBs be more like Excel

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I think excel is one of the greatest programs ever and reactive programming sounds great. This article isn't very specific as to how to get started though. Is it a concept, a product or something I have to implement myself?