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Reminds of this paper by Simon Peyton-Jones at al.: Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel http://research.mi
by nandemo 14y ago
Reminds of this paper by Simon Peyton-Jones at al.:
Improving the world's most popular functional language: user-defined functions in Excel
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers/excel/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers...
- Evbn 14y agoThat was kind of a PR gimmick. Excel is declarative, but misses a lot of functional. For example, first class functions.
- gruseom 14y agoCan you imagine a spreadsheet with first-class functions, and possibly other functional features? What would such a thing look like? Strictly speaking, Excel doesn't have functions at all, let alone first-class, since you can't define a new function using only cells and formulas. You have to go to VBA.
- keithalewis 14y agoLike this: http://xllfunctional.codeplex.com/ http://xllfunctional.codeplex.com/. Not easy to use at all, but it is possible. Barely.