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by esterna 4 days ago
There is one example that succeeded and became the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet: Spreadsheets

Though you might argue that the "programming language" part was rather accidental

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And interestingly using Excel resembles pure functional programming in a lot of ways
And it has array programming features, logging, and (time-travel!) debugging all intuitively graspable for most non-technical people.

I sincerely think there are lots of unlearned lessons in studying Excel.

And that is without counting on Lambdas, VBA, Power Query.
It’s reactive programming in a functional style. I wouldn’t call it functional reactive programming though because that’s usually used to describe more robust languages like older versions of Elm before TEA.