Re:Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powe...
by toby on Monday April 07, 2014 @02:54PM
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Yeah, I probably used the wrong terms there. I was referring not to flowcharts, but the way Excel is used as a "see-it-as-you-go" functional language.
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Re:Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Most Powe...
by AdrianRossouw on Monday April 07, 2014 @02:59PM
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I think excel is interesting because of it's limitations, and it's short feedback loops. all it's data is ultimately tabular, and it changes visually as you work with it.
That last property is one of the reasons I think that flowcharts can work in some niches (like video and audio processing).