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10 Oct 2024 19:23:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Using Excel as a 3D engine  
From: Invisible
Date: 11 Mar 2008 04:20:48
Message: <47d64ef0$1@news.povray.org>
>> Right. And what non-trivial operations can you perform with a snippet 
>> of VBA small enough to resonably fit into a single cell?
> 
> Depends on A) what you're doing and B) what functions for VBA you have 
> pre-made. Would the 1024 (oslt) char limit on Excel cell would be 
> seriously more usable with plain Haskell?

Well let's put it this way. If you wanted to calculate the geometric 
mean (assuming there isn't already a function for that), in VBA you'd 
have to write an explicit FOR loop (with initialisation, update, etc.), 
whereas in Haskell you'd just keep a "map" call... It's a 1-liner.

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