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:::Thanks Brnikat. Nice to know they got a second version working too. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 12:27, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
::Regarding "Microsoft did not build/''made'' Excel as a programming language/IDE (since it is a spreadsheet program)": notice that Excel and Lotus 1-2-3, both spreadsheets, had a programming language consisting of commands written in the cells. It's still available in Excel 2013.
::Regarding Conway's game of life: funny example, it's fairly easy to build a CGOL emulator in a spreadsheet, with only spreadsheets functions, and relying on some evaluation order (that can be controlled by options, usually). Of course the grid of the game is made of spreadsheet cells.
::Actually, there is much more to spreadsheets than merely accounting functions, with some imagination. For instance, it's possible to sort a list with spreadsheet functions. It's probably not enough to say it's a "true" programming language, but the same can be said of LaTeX or SQL, and probably others on RosettaCode.
::[[User:Arbautjc|Arbautjc]] ([[User talk:Arbautjc|talk]]) 10:47, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Unfortunately there is a site limitation that does not allow images to be uploaded. This might affect how graphical solutions to problems can be shown on Rosetta Code. I did [[Knapsack_problem/Unbounded#OOCalc|this]] several years ago which is an oocalc entry.<br>
--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 06:23, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
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