On Sunday, 31 Jan 2021 at 19:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> At least you can keep your APL programs in an VCS and the diffs might
> make sense. Try that with excel.
Very true, and the same applies to org tables (i. e. being able to use
version control).
And, as an aside, I love APL! I just
Eric S Fraga writes:
> I actually tell (warn?) my students that spreadsheets are an example of
> a "write-only programming language", the other being APL (for those with
> long memories).
I may not be of the right generation to remember APL, but I used to love
spreadsheets ... until I had to
In one of the simulation classes I teach, I try to convey the same
message. :-)
In a past life, I had to extend applications that used Excel as a
front-end with a combination of interlinked functions in spreadsheet
cells plus plenty of Visual Basic with a few compiled dlls rolled into
the mix.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 06:17:50PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Friday, 29 Jan 2021 at 13:36, gyro funch wrote:
> > Oooh. That should make Excel spreadsheets even funner to audit.
>
> :-)
>
> I actually tell (warn?) my students that spreadsheets are an example of
> a "write-only programming
On Friday, 29 Jan 2021 at 13:36, gyro funch wrote:
> Oooh. That should make Excel spreadsheets even funner to audit.
:-)
I actually tell (warn?) my students that spreadsheets are an example of
a "write-only programming language", the other being APL (for those with
long memories).
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On 1/28/2021 4:01 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Interesting:
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/
>
> (somebody doesn't know how to spell ultimate?)
>
> I still would rather work with text than in a GUI and in Lisp than
> Excel's language
Interesting:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/
(somebody doesn't know how to spell ultimate?)
I still would rather work with text than in a GUI and in Lisp than
Excel's language (whatever that may actually be) but good to see.
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