AI isn't changing everything. Spreadsheet whizzes are still competitive in the current job market.

The programming language can be used to create more advanced data science workflows than those that Excel supports out of the box.

With LAMBDA, the Excel formula language is Turing-complete. User-defined functions can thus compute anything without resorting to imperative languages (e.g., VBA, JavaScript) ...

Microsoft added a bunch of useful capabilities to Excel this month, including one that was highly requested by customers.

Beyond Excel, the team also took inspiration from tools and languages like Pascal, Mathematica and Miranda, a functional programming language developed in the 1980s.

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a <i>programming language</i>, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a <i>programming language</i> is paying off, recently being ...

That’s the concept behind Xlwings, a BSD-licensed Python library that connects to Excel and allows Excel spreadsheets and Python applications to interact directly.