Excel as a Turing-complete Functional Programming Environment
EuSpRIG Proceedings 2023, ISBN: 978-1-905404-57-5 Since the calculation engine of Excel was the subject of a major upgrade to accommodate Dynamic Arrays in 2018 there has been a series of seismic changes to the art of building spreadsheet solutions. This paper will show the ad-hoc end user practices...
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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31.08.2023
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| Summary: | EuSpRIG Proceedings 2023, ISBN: 978-1-905404-57-5 Since the calculation engine of Excel was the subject of a major upgrade to
accommodate Dynamic Arrays in 2018 there has been a series of seismic changes
to the art of building spreadsheet solutions. This paper will show the ad-hoc
end user practices of traditional spreadsheets can be replaced by radically
different approaches that have far more in common with formal programming. It
is too early to guess the extent to which the new functionality will be adopted
by the business and engineering communities and the impact that may have upon
risk. Nevertheless, some trends are emerging from pioneering work within the
Excel community which we will discuss here. |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2309.00115 |