[Haskell-cafe] Is Excel a FP language?

[Lennart Augustsson]

How about 'IF(x=2,0,5)' ?

On Apr 25, 2007, at 13:48 , Marc Weber wrote:

>>    Is the cell evaluation engine one? I think not. I do not  
>> believe what
>>    you can type into those cells does constitute a programming  
>> language,
>>    or at least not a turing complete one. As far as i know only  
>> simple
>>    calculations can be performed. For example, is there any way to
>>    evaluate f(2) = 0, f(x) = 5
> Sure. Should not be hard using 5 - 5 * (1-abs(sign(2-x)))
> I admit that I didn't test it using Excel but oocalc.
> Or is this VBA?
> You are right. I get your intention ;)
>
> Marc
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