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A comment on Ask HN: What would Excel's formula language look like if you invented it today?.

Re:Ask HN: What would Excel's formula language look like if ... by patrickmay on Monday December 02, 2013 @09:52AM (#6833943)
Scheme is easy to embed and maps well to common spreadsheet operations because it accepts lists of arguments to functions like sum and stdev. It also has a full numeric stack. Modify it to accept ranges of cells and it would be an excellent language for Excel.
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Re:Ask HN: What would Excel's formula language look like if ... by oftenwrong on Monday December 02, 2013 @09:54AM (#6833957)
http://siag.nu/siag/
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Re:Ask HN: What would Excel's formula language look like if ... by r4vik on Monday December 02, 2013 @09:56AM (#6833961)
that's awesome, looks like the Emacs of spreadsheets
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Re:Ask HN: What would Excel's formula language look like if ... by traviscj on Monday December 02, 2013 @11:01AM (#6834431)
Emacs has Org-Mode, which has auto-updating tables [1], which would be the spreadsheet of Emacs.

Here's a demo mileage tracker I did in Org-Mode [2].

- http://orgmode.org/guide/Tables.html#Tables - https://vimeo.com/71364504

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