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How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

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Well, they're FP, in visual form. What's not to like?!

what a fun way to think about them, might get me over my long life hate of spreadsheets

Excel even has a LAMBDA function now: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/lambda-function-b...

Re: How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet

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> If an engineer came to you and said “So for this project, I put all the code, input data, output data and comments scattered about one big two-dimensional array with no type safety, no portability, no scalability, no security, no variable names, no code re-use, no unit tests, no integration tests, no abstractions and no error handling” So, how is this different from engineers and MATLAB?

There are people who start new projects in MATLAB in 2025 for reasons other than ‘our expensive bespoke libraries only support MATLAB and it’d cost millions to rewrite them’?

There is also all the helpful work that Mathworks does such as Simulink ... Also, consider that MATLAB works much more like how one would write on paper (including 1-indexing) and is what people are used to at this point.
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