[Haskell-cafe] Is Excel the most used -- and fucntional -- programming lanuage on Earth?

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 05:57:19 EST 2007


Hello Alexy,

Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 12:46:33 AM, you wrote:

> Heard that statement recently -- that Excel is a functional
> programming language, and the most used one -- of any programming
> languages -- on Earth!  Is it true?

that's true and breaks any words that FP thinking is "unnatural" for
peoples :)

what matters here is that in Excel you *don't* define calculation
order which makes it a functional rather than imperative approach to
computations

-- 
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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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