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Good guy Excel... doing functional programming before it was cool. SUM(A1:A10)

• joeyyang 13y ago
  Exactly! Didn't want to go into how Excel is actually really strict FP in the post, but that's totally true.
  • teemo_cute 13y ago
    Oh my, I just thought of an idea. Since Excel is composed of grids, and a web page underneath is also composed of grids. What if someone made an Excel for web pages? That would be cool!
    • joeyyang 13y ago
      You're right. And it'd be functional as heck.
    • NonEUCitizen 13y ago
      Dan Bricklin, inventor of VisiCalc (and therefore of spreadsheets), suggested using spreadsheets for web content. Looks like WikiCalc came out of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiCalc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiCalc