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Re:Play blackjack in Excel by thanosbaskous on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:45PM (#4319796)
Excel can do some pretty impressive things.

Another cool-but-probably-useless example:

Excel as a 3d engine

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131968/microsoft_excel...

Check out the videos to get a quick understanding of what they did.

Re:Play blackjack in Excel by coroxout on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @05:38AM (#4321964)
Ha, that's great.

I knocked up a more or less working FreeCell solitaire in Excel one bored afternoon, so Blackjack should certainly be possible in plain old Excel VBA.

Most impressive Excel things I've seen by other people: a Game of Life (I'm guessing not SeanDav's, but who knows!), a Dijkstra's algorithm demo which let you resize cells and recalculated the shortest distance between two cells, and this rather impressive Enigma cipher encoder/decoder: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755656

Re:Play blackjack in Excel by dmboyd on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @10:57PM (#4320958)
Essentially, excel is a functional language, without the ability for recursion. If there were a built in array datatype, that'd be possible. There's a few papers floating around explaining an integration between Haskell and excel, described in some places as hsExcel, but I haven't seen a working copy.
Re:Play blackjack in Excel by Metrop0218 on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @06:05PM (#4319875)
That's nuts