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Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016

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What it is

Felienne Hermans argues that Excel is the world's most popular programming language and shows how spreadsheets work as a pure functional language. She implements a few mathematical problems in spreadsheet formulas to illustrate why they are so powerful and approachable.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it whenever Excel, spreadsheets or functional programming come up, as a fun and serious take on spreadsheets as real programming.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Felienne has a great talk on functional programming in Excel”

    Great talk on functional programming in Excel

    rzzzt, 2020-05 · Strong recommendation · in “History of Logo”

  2. “Check out Felienne Hermans' work if you haven't already”

    Hermans' work on Excel as a functional language

    vanderZwan, 2017-12 · Recommendation · in “Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback”

  3. “You may enjoy”

    Talk on pure functional programming in Excel

    brohee, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates”

  4. “I found it interesting, fun and great.”

    Interesting, fun talk on Excel as a programming language

    ggrrhh_ta, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook”

  5. “I recommend Felienne Hermans' talks on Excel as a functional programming language”

    Talks on Excel as a functional programming language

    robertknight, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “CellLVM: A proof-of-concept LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler”

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Topics: excel, functional programming, spreadsheets, end-user programming, felienne hermans

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