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Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Excel a FP language?
I just had a thought... Why doesn't somebody implement a spreadsheet
where Haskell is the formula language? 8-)
I have
I just had a thought... Why doesn't somebody implement a
spreadsheet where Haskell is the formula language? 8-)
I have already been struggling (unsuccessfully) to write a program to
graph functions, but why not go the whole hog and make an entire
spreadsheet program?
Possibly one of the
andrewcoppin:
I just had a thought... Why doesn't somebody implement a
spreadsheet where Haskell is the formula language? 8-)
I have already been struggling (unsuccessfully) to write a
program to graph functions, but why not go the whole hog and
make an entire spreadsheet
On 05/05/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just had a thought... Why doesn't somebody implement a spreadsheet where
Haskell is the formula language? 8-)
http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet.html
may interest.
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-David House, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just had a thought... Why doesn't somebody implement a spreadsheet
where
Haskell is the formula language? 8-)
http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet.html
may interest.
...ok, and now my head hurts...
(Haskell seems to do that lots. I'm not sure why.)
I just had a thought... Why doesn't somebody implement a spreadsheet
where
Haskell is the formula language? 8-)
http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet.html
may interest.
...ok, and now my head hurts...
(Haskell seems to do that lots. I'm not sure why.)
Well,
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
On 4/24/07, 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 :)
My opposition proposed (after some weeding out) that there is a
distinction between Excel, the
My opposition proposed (after some weeding out) that there is a
distinction between Excel, the application, the GUI and Excel, the
language (which we eventually agreed (I think) manifested itself as a
.xls file). Similarly, VB is both a language and a development
environment and referring to VB
Hi Tony,
I think Lennart said it best with Excel is a zero-order functional
language - a functional language in which you can't define functions.
Another way of putting that is that it is a functional language, but a
really bad one (from a functional'ness perspective).
Thanks
Neil
On
Is the cell evaluation engine one? I think not. I do not believe what
you can type into those cells does constitute a programming language,
or at least not a turing complete one. As far as i know only simple
calculations can be performed. For example, is there any way to
I usually refer to Excel as a zeroth order functional language, i.e.,
you can't define any functions. :)
(You can define functions if you do it in VBA or in an addin, but
that's not really Excel, imo.)
-- Lennart
On Apr 25, 2007, at 04:00 , Tony Morris wrote:
In a debate I proposed
How about 'IF(x=2,0,5)' ?
On Apr 25, 2007, at 13:48 , Marc Weber wrote:
Is the cell evaluation engine one? I think not. I do not
believe what
you can type into those cells does constitute a programming
language,
or at least not a turing complete one. As far as i know only
simple
Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
I say Excel is a functional language. If there needs to be the quoted
distinction, fine: Excel the language is a functional language, and
Excel the application is an interpreter of said language.
Excel has functions, but does it treat functions as it treats other
Tony Morris wrote:
My opposition proposed (after some weeding out) that there is a
distinction between Excel, the application, the GUI and Excel, the
language (which we eventually agreed (I think) manifested itself as a
.xls file).
I say Excel is a functional language. If there needs to be the
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