Hi Alexy,
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? Are there good examples of typical FP style in Excel?
You can't define functions in Excel, hence its not really a functional language. I'd go as far as saying its an expression-based programming language, but that's it. It also has mutable state (if you use circular references) so its not pure. That said, the quote almost certainly comes from this paper (in the title): http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/excel/index.htm Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
