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nylonstrung
4 days ago
And interestingly using Excel resembles pure functional programming in a lot of ways
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esterna
3 days ago
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.
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pjmlp
3 days ago
And that is without counting on Lambdas, VBA, Power Query.
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ModernMech
4 days ago
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.
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I sincerely think there are lots of unlearned lessons in studying Excel.