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Ygg2 on Aug 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Excel is pretty dang cool

GP mentioned programming in Excel. That's an advanced topic. Very few people actually program in it.

I don't count computation as programming (Sum/count/avg).

xxpor on Aug 14, 2022 [–]

Why not? Is writing a function to calculate a fibonacci number not programming? If no, why is it the introduction to a lot of functional language tutorials?

Ygg2 on Aug 15, 2022 | [–]

Sure, writing a function yes.

But most people use count/max/avg prebuilts, with little to no logic. If it ain't Turing Complete, it's not programming :P

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