Array Languages vs. the Curse of the Spreadsheet

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  • ExceLint

    Discontinued Finds formula errors in spreadsheets (plugin for Microsoft Excel)

  • It is a proper programming language.

    For #1, there has been research on linting and automated semantic error or smell detection in Excel (e.g., https://github.com/ExceLint/ExceLint). Some features are live in Excel today!

    For #2, Excel now supports Python.

    I don't think you need to do any conversions, all of the necessary information exists in the spreadsheet.

  • xlcalculator

    xlcalculator converts MS Excel formulas to Python and evaluates them.

  • I know of some Python libraries that do something like this:

      https://github.com/bradbase/xlcalculator

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  • pycel

    A library for compiling excel spreadsheets to python code & visualizing them as a graph

  • https://github.com/dgorissen/pycel

  • formulas

    Excel formulas interpreter in Python.

  • https://github.com/vinci1it2000/formulas

  • uiua

    A stack-based array programming language

  • This is what I love in Uiua[1]. That operators can be written as english words instead of unicode symbols. Makes it quite similar looking to functuinal point free code.

    [1]: https://www.uiua.org/

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