Good guy Excel... doing functional programming before it was cool. SUM(A1:A10)
Exactly! Didn't want to go into how Excel is actually really strict FP in the post, but that's totally true.
Oh my, I just thought of an idea. Since Excel is composed of grids, and a web page underneath is also composed of grids. What if someone made an Excel for web pages? That would be cool!
Dan Bricklin, inventor of VisiCalc (and therefore of spreadsheets), suggested using spreadsheets for web content. Looks like WikiCalc came out of this: