If I can do Excel, can I program?(medium.com)

2 pointsby joeyyang12 yıl önce6 comments

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If I can do Excel, can I program?

https://medium.com/p/fde17f82f65a

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autumncolor12 yıl önce

Excel: bringing programming to the masses.

teemo_cute12 yıl önce

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

joeyyang12 yıl önce

Exactly! Didn't want to go into how Excel is actually really strict FP in the post, but that's totally true.

teemo_cute12 yıl önce

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!

NonEUCitizen12 yıl önce

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

joeyyang12 yıl önce

You're right. And it'd be functional as heck.