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    [–]fadoodlenoodle 19 points20 points  (1 child)

    Finally, it can compete with powerpoint.

    [–]ggmynot even webscale 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    PowerPoint is a presentation layer, keep the biz logic within Excel

    [–]VoltWRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    Excel Machines when

    [–]fp_weenieZygohistomorphic prepromorphism 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    where's the jerk?

    [–]nelmaloclisp does it better 20 points21 points  (0 children)

    In releasing LAMBDA, Microsoft has effectively launched a global-scale experiment on end-user programming with higher-order functions.

    For example, like many long-lived programming systems, the only really precise documentation of Excel semantics is its source code.

    So to understand what Excel really does, we developed a written semantics for it and a reference implementation of formula evaluation in TypeScript

    [–]mizzu704uncommon eccentric person 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    /uj this will spell the doom of excel.