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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by LandR on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:49AM (#25045858)
What do you mean? You sorta do that already do that in Excel, e.g. you can name A1 Speed, A2 Distance, A3 Time and the formula in A3 becomes

    = Distance/Speed
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Re:Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014... by mikewarot on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @05:08PM (#25052687)
Explicitly tagging cells as I/O would remove all ambiguity that otherwise has to exist in any given spreadsheet. Knowing what could/couldn't me moved by tools opens a lot of possibilities. In fact, you could remove all non-IO cells to a list of formulae, to be editable in an IDE.

I hope that makes sense.

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