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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 widely used programming language. Excel formulas are written by an order of magnitude more users than all the C, C++, C#, Java, and Python programmers in the world combined. Despite its success, considered as a…
Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel. Spreadsheets do more than just calculations; they help people analyse data -- and often, they codify that analysis into a decision model. Code those same kind of decisions in JavaScript or PHP and it's clear that you're doing programming.
Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.
Simon Peyton Jones, principal researcher at Microsoft and one of Britain’s leading computer scientists, was appointed chair of the Government’s new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE), which works to improve the teaching of computer science in schools. He will lead the organization as it tries to increase the number of young people who choose to study the subject at GCSE and A-Level. Peyton Jones said: “I am delighted to have a role in translating…
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 empower a huge user community to do more. One of the joys of working at Microsoft Research is the ability to directly influence mainstream software technologies – in this case, Microsoft Excel. And the Excel…
Dr. Peyton Jones shares his passion for functional programming research, reveals how a desire to help other researchers write and present better turned him into an unlikely YouTube star, and explains why, at least in the world of programming languages, purity is embarrassing, laziness is cool, and success should be avoided at all costs.
The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition of Haskell, an advanced, purely functional programming language used by researchers and industry worldwide. The Distinguished Fellowship award is primarily for his efforts to advance the development of computer science education in the United Kingdom, according to the British Computer Society. In 2008, Peyton Jones established Computing at…
Simon Peyton Jones and Dimitrios Vytiniotis have won the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award, which recognizes the impact of a paper presented at the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) 10 years earlier. The paper, “Simple unification-based type inference for GADTs,” describes the design and implementation of a programming language feature that enabled programmers to write more efficient and correct-by-construction code in functional languages such as Haskell. The research was conducted when Vytiniotis was an intern…
