alt Hacker NewsPeyton-Jones says excel is demonstrably FP so UI aside (which is SAMOP) Haskell seems sensible especially for the finance team.
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mlazos • yesterday at 9:32 PM
This would be an unmitigated disaster - most programmers have trouble with Haskell, I can’t imagine saying hey finance guys here’s an LLM and Haskell figure it out when they’re used to using a full on application with UX. It’s actually so crazy I feel like you’re joking.
epistasis • yesterday at 10:10 PM
UI is the entire point for an excel alternative, as I understand it.
The computation side is trivial in comparison. But with AI, emulating the UI becomes far easier.
0c3ca83 • yesterday at 9:23 PM
That's like saying, "UI aside, a car is just wheels and an engine, so drivers should break out the welders instead of relying on big auto"
FP and SAMOP mean what? Your suggestion is to use a programming language to replace excel?