Does anyone want to write in VBA and XML for Excel any longer? Yes, because it's one of the last areas of freedom where the talented user can do amazing things. Excel is a fascinating piece of ...

When you're stuck in the office and you're bored, you start to get creative. If your company has locked down your internet access, you're stuck making the best with whatever programs are installed on ...

The lambda calculus is a theoretical construct often used to beat non-mathematically inclined programmers into submission - that and monoids. Now we have Calc Intelligence, a Microsoft Research ...

Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing ...

Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new version of Excel that will enable users to write and run Python code directly in the spreadsheet editor’s interface. Stefan Kinnestrand, a general manager for ...

Some people use Microsoft Excel to keep track of their budget, or to organize multiple schedules. This takes it a few steps farther. Redditor crruzi, (as found by Polygon) a programmer learning Visual ...