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Excel really is programming. It is classified as cell-oriented dataflow programming. Functional Reactive Programming is a close cousin to such paradigm.
by lightblade 14y ago
Excel really is programming. It is classified as cell-oriented dataflow programming. Functional Reactive Programming is a close cousin to such paradigm.
- Robin_Message 14y agoClassifying such languages is actually part of my PhD thesis, so I can authoritatively :) say that while merely adding the concept of time gets you to functional reactive programming from excel, they aren't really related because FRP is so much more powerful.