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by 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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Yes. They've completely flubbed python-in-excel already.
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.