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If I can do Excel, can I program?

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by joeyyang • 12 years ago

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teemo_cute2• 12 years ago

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

joeyyang2• 12 years ago

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

teemo_cute2• 12 years 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!

autumncolor• 12 years ago

Excel: bringing programming to the masses.

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