[david927]

Spreadsheets have a much more brilliant potential than we currently understand. In fact, it's my opinion that in the future we'll be essentially coding in a spreadsheet; not a text editor. (That's the case with the project I'm working on.)

If you want to talk about this more, I'm david927 at gmail.

[twoodfin]

Simon Peyton Jones et al. wrote an interesting 2003 paper on extending Excel's "natural" mapping to functional programming with first class (i.e. cell-based) user-defined functions.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...