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.

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 ...

OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, by contrast, can use Python directly as a macro language. Python and Microsoft Office have had ways to work together in the past — for instance, by using ...

Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that takes its cues from Excel formulas. Power Fx will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft's own low ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new general purpose programming language for low code that’ll be based on Microsoft Excel. And as is increasingly becoming the norm with the Redmond-based software giant ...

Beyond Excel, the team also took inspiration from tools and languages like Pascal, Mathematica and Miranda, a functional programming language developed in the 1980s.