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Re: Is Excel the most used -- and fucntional -- programming lanuage on Earth?

by Chris Eidhof :: Rate this Message:

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The cool thing about Excel is that it's like Function Reactive  
Programming. When you update the value of a cell, all the other cells  
that reference to it get updated too. That's pretty cool to have in  
GUI's as well, and Haskell has that too. See [1].

-chris

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/frp/

On 30 Jan, 2007, at 22:46 , Alexy Khrabrov wrote:

> Heard that statement recently -- that Excel is a functional
> programming language, and the most used one -- of any programming
> languages -- on Earth!  Is it true?  Are there good examples of
> typical FP style in Excel?
>
> Cheers,
> Alexy
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