Haskell in Excel

Question

I've seen a couple of sources casually refer to the idea of "Haskell in an Excel spreadsheet" - as if this is something that everybody is familiar with and knows about.

This is certainly news to me. The idea has obvious appeal - Haskell would be ideally suited to this kind of thing. But has anybody ever actually got this to work?

Answer 1

This paper by David Wakeling discusses combining a standard spreadsheet application (Excel) with a standard functional language (Haskell): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1194878

From the abstract:

The functional programming community has shown some interest in spreadsheets, but surprisingly no one seems to have considered making a standard spreadsheet, such as Excel, work with a standard functional programming language, such as Haskell. In this paper, we show one way that this can be done. Our hope is that by doing so, we might get spreadsheet programmers to give functional programming a try.