THE VIDEO SHELF · spreadsheets as programming
Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016
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 HN readers recommended 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.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- GOTO Conferences
- Topic
- spreadsheets as programming
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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OT, but Felienne has a great talk on functional programming in Excel (thanks for reminding me of her name): [VIDEO]
rzzzt on Hacker News · 2020-05
In History of LogoExcel itself is functional and reactive already, wouldn't adding an FRP language on top of that be a bit superfluous? Check out Felienne Hermans' work if you haven't already: [VIDEO] [LINK]
vanderZwan on Hacker News · 2017-12
In Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedbackYou may enjoy "Pure Functional Programming in Excel" by Felienne Hermans presented at GOTO 2016 [VIDEO]
brohee on Hacker News · 2020-08
In Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates
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