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Spreadsheet functional programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2007

DAVID WAKELING
DAVID WAKELING*
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The Business School, University of Gloucestershire, The Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 2RH, UK (e-mail: dwakeling@glos.ac.uk)
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The functional programming community has shown some interest in spreadsheets, but surprisingly no one seems to have considered making a standard spreadsheet, such as Excel, work with a standard functional programming language, such as Haskell. In this paper, we show one way that this can be done. Our hope is that by doing so, we might get spreadsheet programmers to give functional programming a try.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 131 - 143
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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