From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T08:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: functional paradigm taking over

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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Everett L Williams II
<rett@classicnet.net>wrote:

> Excel is being denigrated here, and that is foolish.
>
>
I haven't seen it denigrated at all, I'm honestly surprised that people have
been as accommodating as they have.


>
> Many people use spreadsheets all day long to accomplish their work. They
> are good with spreadsheets and comfortable with them. What is being said
> here is that they should throw away all that goodness and go to Ruby or
> something like Ruby, because it is better for some classes of problems.
>
>
Certainly no one said what you just paraphrased, all anyone has done is to
reject the claims that Excel is a programming language (named S#) that
should be used for everything (including web applications), that we don't
need real programming languages and that recursion is always harder and
inferior to "a more linearly coded function".

But, we've also said that you are free to show us how Excel could be a
programming language -- I even went and tried to find an example, and
offered several suggestions of programs I had written this semester that you
could duplicate in Excel to prove your point.

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