Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Excel a FP language?

On 25/04/07, Tony Morris wrote:

In a debate I proposed "Excel is a functional language". It was refuted and I'd like to know what some of you clever Haskellers might think :)

By coincidence I wrote about Excel (and related spreadsheets) as functional languages just recently [1]. It was prompted by an article in the BMJ where a spreadsheet cell was accidentally overwritten by patient data, meaning a small child was given their weight as a drug quantity, rather than the quantity being calculated from their weight. [1]: http://brokenhut.livejournal.com/233310.html Cheers, D.