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Excel has been dryly noted as the most popular functional programming language before: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3033912/functional-languages-what-they-

by wting 6y ago

Excel has been dryly noted as the most popular functional programming language before: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3033912/functional-languages-what-they-are-where-theyre-going.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3033912/functional-languag... In Excel you can't modify existing state in a cell, but only transform and output the results in a new cell.

dexwiz 6y ago
You can change the evaluation semantics to allow cyclical references and either a max number of cycles or a stability parameter. This allows you to solve differential equations in excel. While this isn’t quite what you described, it’s closer than the default behavior.