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There is one example that succeeded and became the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet: Spreadsheets Though you might argue that the "programmi
by esterna 2mo ago
There is one example that succeeded and became the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet: Spreadsheets
Though you might argue that the "programming language" part was rather accidental
- nylonstrung 2mo agoAnd interestingly using Excel resembles pure functional programming in a lot of ways
- ModernMech 2mo agoIt’s reactive programming in a functional style. I wouldn’t call it functional reactive programming though because that’s usually used to describe more robust languages like older versions of Elm before TEA.
- esterna 2mo agoAnd it has array programming features, logging, and (time-travel!) debugging all intuitively graspable for most non-technical people. I sincerely think there are lots of unlearned lessons in studying Excel.
- pjmlp 2mo agoAnd that is without counting on Lambdas, VBA, Power Query.