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Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016
GOTO Conferences · 5 HN recommenders · 5 recommendation months
Recommended by 5 Hacker News commenters across 5 months (2017–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 5 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.3× that mean. Recommendations span 5 distinct months; the peer average is 3.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
71% of its 7 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 43 minutes 16 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-08-09.
- Channel / speaker
- GOTO Conferences
- Verified runtime
- 43m 16s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-08-09
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Functional programming. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016Current video | 5 | 5 | 71% | — | 43m 16s | 2016-08-09 |
| Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirichtalk · Confreaks | 17 | 18 | 90% | No recorded overlap | 53m 22s | 2012-11-11 |
| The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019talk · GOTO Conferences | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 42m 3s | 2019-05-22 |
| "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)talk · Strange Loop Conference | 14 | 14 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 61m 39s | 2021-09-02 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet”. Its short rationale: Cited as showing the world runs on spreadsheets.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “CellLVM: A proof-of-concept LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler”. Its short rationale: Talks on Excel as a functional programming language.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm”. Its short rationale: Cited alongside Hermans' spreadsheet research.