Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is Excel the most used -- and fucntional -- programming lanuage on Earth?

On 1/31/07, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

I think you're using a somewhat non-standard definition of function. let x = 5 y = x + 2 z = x * y ... Would you call y and z functions?

Ah...we don't disagree on what a function is, I'm just parsing spreadsheets differently from you. I was imagining a spreadhseet along the lines of http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-l-theorem-to-spreadsheet.html where every cell is a function of the entire spreadsheet.