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by jxy 1886 days ago
Now we have a legitimate use case for the Y combinator.

What's next? A full implementation of scheme? Common lisp?

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Check out this paper from my friend Ronen, and Prof. Fateman, putting Lisp into Excel:

"A paper written with Ronen Gradwohl on Lisp and Symbolic Functionality in an Excel Spreadsheet: Development of an OLE Scientific Computing Environment, August, 2002. (code available on request) "

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/algebra.html

Implement Emacs Lisp and throw in evil-mode. Now you can run the world's most extensible editor with Vim bindings INSIDE EXCEL!!

Also, Emacs's org-mode implements some basic spread-sheet utilities, so...