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Excel can do some pretty impressive things. Another cool-but-probably-useless example: Excel as a 3d engine http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131968/micr
by thanosbaskous 14y ago
Excel can do some pretty impressive things.
Another cool-but-probably-useless example:
Excel as a 3d engine
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131968/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?print=1 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131968/microsoft_excel...
Check out the videos to get a quick understanding of what they did.
- Metrop0218 14y agoThat's nuts
- dmboyd 14y agoEssentially, excel is a functional language, without the ability for recursion. If there were a built in array datatype, that'd be possible. There's a few papers floating around explaining an integration between Haskell and excel, described in some places as hsExcel, but I haven't seen a working copy.
- coroxout 14y agoHa, that's great. I knocked up a more or less working FreeCell solitaire in Excel one bored afternoon, so Blackjack should certainly be possible in plain old Excel VBA. Most impressive Excel things I've seen by other people: a Game of Life (I'm guessing not SeanDav's, but who knows!), a Dijkstra's algorithm demo which let you resize cells and recalculated the shortest distance between two cells, and this rather impressive Enigma cipher encoder/decoder: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755656 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755656