[ww520]

Ok. I misread what you wrote in my haste and misunderstood what you said. You can ignore my reply to your original comment.

However, my original point was addressing the claim in the blog that functional and declarative are equivalent in that functional has aspect of declarative. And since Excel is declarative, it's functional. I was basically saying that's not the case.

While declarative and functional can be orthogonal, and can both live in a language is an interesting but separate topic that is not really related to the original comment.