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I think the idea that the author was trying to express was that in a spreadsheet language, you select a data range and then choose a function to perform on that
by z1mm32m4n 11y ago
I think the idea that the author was trying to express was that in a spreadsheet language, you select a data range and then choose a function to perform on that data. That's the "functional" aspect I took away from my reading of it.
- the_french 11y agoIts no huge surprise that spreadsheets implement a form of FRP . Specifically, you can look at loeb's function [1] as an example of the relation. Being able to focus on the data itself while easily composing operations is definitely functional in nature. However, FP is not a silver bullet either. In practice I think humans care a bit less about correctness than compilers and would like some aspects of the language to be 'fuzzy' for lack of a better word. To most people "1" and 1 are the same thing so why shouldn't the compiler understand that. There could be potential for a dynamic-fp language of sorts. [1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet.html http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet...
- eru 11y ago`Fuzziness' and FRP are pretty orthogonal. Ie even in Haskell as it is, it's pretty easy to add an 'if' that takes 'truthy ' and 'falsy' values like in Python. Just use a type-class 'Booly' that include a conversion function toBool.