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I feel like this feature was built because the engineering team spends too much time reading functional programming/ML zeal here on hacker news instead of a rea
by blululu 5y ago
I feel like this feature was built because the engineering team spends too much time reading functional programming/ML zeal here on hacker news instead of a real user/customer desire.
The irony is that this feature will almost certainly be met with derision/scorn from the CS crowd and clueless shrugs from excel users.
- mcbishop 5y ago> this feature will almost certainly be met with derision/scorn from the CS crowd Why?
- blast 5y agoSPJ was the driving force behind the feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/advancing-excel-as-a-programming-language-with-andy-gordon-and-simon-peyton-jones/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/advancing-e..., so I don't think that is true.
- Ericson2314 5y ago> clueless shrugs from excel users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4y5UqauRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4y5UqauRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7s6Dni1dG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7s6Dni1dG8 Demonstrably false. What has instead happened, I shit you not, is we have "Excel influencers" teaching people recursion "without code!" (aka without VBScript). I cried and I laughed when I first saw, it was a watershed moment in CS education.
- MikusR 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw