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Slightly related to this, this article made me check Simon Peyton Jones's wiki page [1], where I saw this: > Jones has played a vital role in the development o

Slightly related to this, this article made me check Simon Peyton Jones's wiki page [1], where I saw this: > Jones has played a vital role in the development of new Microsoft Excel features since 2003, when he published a paper on user-defined functions.[19] In 2021, anonymous functions and let expressions were made available in the Office 365 version of Excel as a beta feature.[20] Truly, there were (possibly still are) a lot of smart people working on Excel, as the years go by I'm starting to think of it as one of the most interesting pieces of software ever written. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones

eru 4y ago
He semi-joked that Excel is the world's most popular functional programming language.
- stormbrew 4y ago
  Excel is probably the world's most popular programming language period.
  - javchz 4y ago
    80% of SaaS business out there are just excel files with a better UI and a more scalable database.
    - haggy102 4y ago
      Well not ALWAYS a more scalable DB ;)
- reidjs 4y ago
  > Excel is the world's most popular functional programming language. It's not?
operator-name 4y ago
LET has been a huge game changer, and when used it can greatly improve the readability of excel functions. Ranged based functions and LAMBDA are also great additions, but to a bit of a lesser extent as they're more complex and thus less popular.