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A comment on Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. Parent comment

Re:Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica by igouy on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:41PM (#31936717)
The label of programming language goes to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/overview/exc...

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Re:Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica by zaphar on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:19PM (#31938763)
Excel has conditionals and several forms of map/reduce which stand in for loops all without relying on VBA. I stand by my statement that Excel qualifies in everyway that matters as a programming language.

They avoid that label because of their target audience but the label absolutely applies.

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