Hi Brandon, Olaf,
I did not mean to be a jerk. I think Olaf has an itch and a good idea of how to scratch it, and it could be the basis for a great project. I've never used Mathematica, so I have a hard time visualizing what he is driving at. My apologies if I was inappropriate.
It is reasonable to ask whether there would be a reasonable user base for a functional programming language/spreadsheet. My intuition is that there would be among more advanced spreadsheet users. So that is obviously a point of disagreement, but that is OK. We should probably debate that.
I also think he is talking about a different thing than I am, and what this thread has been apart thus far. It is a Bad Thing (in the Winnie the Pooh sense) when threads turn into fibers. I think Olaf's idea/itch is actually quite good, and deserves a thread of its own.
With apologies,
Trent.