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Yes, or (in this case?) interpreting it. I think of spreadsheets as visual functional programming environments. The humble spreadsheet has an interesting kinshi

Yes, or (in this case?) interpreting it. I think of spreadsheets as visual functional programming environments. The humble spreadsheet has an interesting kinship with the most trendy, and, for some (me!), difficult-to-grok programming paradigm.

airstrike 6y ago
YES! This is exactly how I see it. I feel like I'm in this weird intersection of people who've spent A LOT of time in Excel and also significant time in programming to feel this way about spreadsheets but I don't know who else to talk to.. I tried making the same point on reddit the other day https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/jpb2ud/edit_a_spreadsheet_generate_python/gbf9auu/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/jpb2ud/edit_a_spread...
- jspotanski 6y ago
  The soon-to-come LET function agrees :) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/let-function-34842dd8-b92b-4d3f-b325-b8b8f9908999 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/let-function-3484... Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft
  - FabHK 6y ago
    That's awesome. So you basically allow implicit creation of off-spreadsheet named cells (sub-cells, in a sense, as they're only locally available). Very useful.
Tomte 6y ago
See also "Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses" by Simon Peyton-Jones et al.