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by platform 3990 days ago
Excel's programming model is called "non monotonic data flow programming" [1]. The diagram referenced in [1] shows which other languages support that model Therefore I would suggest to start from Oz, Alice, Curry, AKL, FCP... as the platforms for Excel replacement

[1] https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng108.pdf