Author: John DotyJohn Doty Date: May 7, 2007 07:31
John Passaniti wrote:
> John Doty wrote:
>>> Being able to produce stand-alone programs is not a requirement of a
>>> programming language.
>>>
>>> Spreadsheets are (even without macros) a kind of programming
>>> language. They are specifically classed in with functional and
>>> data-flow languages.
>>
>> Indeed. And such hair splitting matters not at all to the user.
>
> It's not clear to me who you think is splitting hairs.
Mostly Kenney. But you got into it a skosh with "They are specifically
classified ...". Who cares as long as they get the work done? Not that I
personally like spreadsheets or use them much: a table of numbers with
hidden relationships is just so much visual noise to my brain. But I'm
obviously in a small minority here.
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