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by robertknight 902 days ago
Related to this, I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw.
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kzrdude 902 days ago
Not related to this, excel has just introduced Python support and it's a pretty wild take on it all. You can have Python code in any cell, and all the cells share a namespace for their variables. GL HF everyone.

Ideal: Functional. Reality: Stateful spaghetti

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mhh__ 901 days ago
Yes. They've completely flubbed python-in-excel already.
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plagiarist 901 days ago
I was so hyped when I found out spreadsheets had map/reduce, I thought we were entering a functional programming renaissance. This is appalling news that we are in fact entering a hotter trashfire than ever before.
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chrisweekly 901 days ago
Reminds me of MobX intro docs describing its observables in terms of spreadsheet cells with computed values.
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