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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by mabbo on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:00AM (#15757207)
This is how I like to explain functional programming to developers today. When you say "Functional Programming", a lot of devs think "scary complicated thing". When you say "Basic excel spreadsheets" they go "anyone can do that!".
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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by fjsolwmv on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:21AM (#15757985)
Excel is a very limited form of functional programming. It's sort of SIMD and it eschews side effects, but it has no first class functions which is extremely frustrated and -non-functional
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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:48PM (#15758776)
Perhaps a better term is declarative?
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