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LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
by Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. It’s also the world’s most…
Awards | ACM
4 Microsoft Researchers named Fellows of the ACM
Andy Gordon, Dave Maltz, Meredith Ringel Morris and Tony Hoare (retired Microsoft) were named as one of the 95 2020 ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. Andy is recognized for his contributions to programming languages: their principles, logic, usability,…
Influencing mainstream software—Applying programming language research ideas to transform spreadsheets
by Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would…