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Learned functional programming in Excel. Or rather, I had a problem that I knew should be solved in a functional manner and I prototyped it in Excel. This was before I'd ever heard the term "functional programming."

I translated that prototype into JavaScript to implement a somewhat complex web page that had a lot of interrelationships between inputs. This was back when "DHTML" had just become a term of art. It worked perfectly and I'll never forget when, months later in a meeting, a tester was asked if that part of the project was ready; she said "Yeah, he did it. I don't know how he did it but it works."

I keep thinking there is a need for some sort of "next level" spreadsheet software. There are a bunch of uncoordinated ideas in my head for what that would look like, and I haven't seen anything like it emerge yet.

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Do you think you could articulate any of them? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, however incomplete they may be.