“Felienne has a great talk on functional programming in Excel”
Great talk on functional programming in Excel
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OT, but Felienne has a great talk on functional programming in Excel (thanks for reminding me of her name): this video
Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016
26K views · Aug 9, 2016 · 43:16 · 5 HN recommenders · 7 mentions · discussed 2017–2025
Felienne Hermans argues that Excel is the world's most popular programming language and shows how spreadsheets work as a pure functional language. She implements a few mathematical problems in spreadsheet formulas to illustrate why they are so powerful and approachable.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters point to it whenever Excel, spreadsheets or functional programming come up, as a fun and serious take on spreadsheets as real programming.
“Felienne has a great talk on functional programming in Excel”HN comment, 2020
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“Check out Felienne Hermans' work if you haven't already”
Hermans' work on Excel as a functional language
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Excel itself is functional and reactive already, wouldn't adding an FRP language on top of that be a bit superfluous? Check out Felienne Hermans' work if you haven't already: this video link
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Talk on pure functional programming in Excel
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You may enjoy "Pure Functional Programming in Excel" by Felienne Hermans presented at GOTO 2016 this video
“I found it interesting, fun and great.”
Interesting, fun talk on Excel as a programming language
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This is the talk that I first saw that builds on that: this video I found it interesting, fun and great. Still, I would stick to using Excel for the personal analysis of data and not as the language/tool on which software is developed: data & programming logic intermixed, the default way to index cells, the difference between normal cells and array cells, and tables, etc., the fact that some things are just not possible to do fully programmatically without creating your own VB functions and therefore asking recipients of what looks like data to accept running arbitrary code in their machines, etc.
“I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language”
Talks on Excel as a functional programming language
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Related to this, I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language - this video .
“Also see the research of Felienne Hermans and her talk”
Cited alongside Hermans' spreadsheet research
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Also see the research of Felienne Hermans and her talk “Pure Functional Programming in Excel.”[1] [1] this video
“Felienne Hermans is proven right about the world running on spreadsheets”
Cited as showing the world runs on spreadsheets
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And once again Felienne Hermans is proven right about the world running on spreadsheets and that we should take them a lot more seriously for that reason alone. [0] this video