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....the arcs connecting these nodes tend to become a tangled mass as editing progresses. After the launch of VisiCalc, spreadsheets gained in popularity with the financial community, as evidenced by several similar programs which were written in the following years, such as Lotus 1,2,3 [32] Quattro [4] and Microsoft Excel [35] However, their use remained constrained to financial calculations for most of the following two decades. The commercial success of these spreadsheet programs eventually led researchers to experiment with the idea of using spreadsheets (or at least the spreadsheet ....

....system for functional programs. 3.2 Overview of Functional Spreadsheets The functional programming paradigm stipulates that functions may only read their arguments and generate only the result, without making any changes to their surroundings. Spreadsheet formulas on most commercial spreadsheets [32, 35, 4] normally adhere to this paradigm, if one considers the formula to be the function, the cells referred to by the formula as the function s arguments and 33 the value displayed in the cell occupied by the formula as the function s result. De Hoon [12] has shown that a spreadsheet can indeed be ....

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Borland International. Quattro Pro Users' Guide, Version 3.0. Borland International, 1991.

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