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 today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft's own low ...

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

Microsoft is putting a Copilot natural language frontend on its Python scripting language for Excel. Does that mean you can tap all the power of Excel analysis and macros with no programming ...

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

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Microsoft says the language was developed by a team led by Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger and Darryl Rubin. Beyond Excel, the team also took inspiration from tools and languages like ...

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) ...

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.

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 ...