Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel?

Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by eru on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:32PM (#429733)

Turing-Machines are Turing-complete, too.

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by nx on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:44PM (#429752)

O RLY?

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by eru on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:02PM (#430704)

To make my point explicit: Excel being Turing-complete does not imply it being feature-complete.

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by nx on Monday January 12, 2009 @01:20PM (#430846)

I know. It was a joke, thus the ":P", and so was the "O RLY?". But maybe the emoticon wasn't clear enough and I should've added an interrobang there? Anyway, thanks for the -10 karma points.

BTW, I do my spreadsheets with a Von Neumann derivate of a finite state automaton.

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by eru on Monday January 12, 2009 @05:49PM (#431274)

Perhaps "O RLY?" was not witty enough?

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? by GHFigs on Monday January 12, 2009 @07:27PM (#431396)

  HAI
  CAN HAS STDIO?
  I HAS A WITTEH
  I HAS A KARMA
  
  IZ WITTEH BIGGER THAN "O RLY"?
    YARLY
      UP KARMA!!1
    NOWAI
      DOWN KARMA!!1
    KTHX
  KTHXBYE

  BTW "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
  BTW http://lolcode.com/

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