On 25/04/07, Tony Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a debate I proposed "Excel is a functional language". It was refuted and I'd like to know what some of you clever Haskellers might think :)
By coincidence I wrote about Excel (and related spreadsheets) as functional languages just recently [1]. It was prompted by an article in the BMJ where a spreadsheet cell was accidentally overwritten by patient data, meaning a small child was given their weight as a drug quantity, rather than the quantity being calculated from their weight. [1]: <http://brokenhut.livejournal.com/233310.html> Cheers, D. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
