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SUMMARY:Steve Bolman\, "Organism in Excel" or "Faking VBA to mock Functions as first class `Objects`"
DESCRIPTION:“Organism” is a dimensional analysis algorithm that over the past 20 years I have written in several languages (both FP and OOP paradigms). I decided 18 months ago to attempt to build it using VBA (inside Excel) and was surprised that in fact the hurdles presented by a language that remains fundamentally unchanged since the mid-90s could be overcome. To those not familiar with how Excel and VBA work together\, there were reasons I thought it was likely I would not get the results I had hoped for\, but with few exceptions I found workarounds. \nThis will not be a structured talk so I am happy to either discuss VBA in detail or focus on the product ‘Organism’\, what it does and why I feel it is important as an tool for global engineering. \nBio: Steve initially presented “Organism” written in Erlang to HFPUG over 10 years ago. A Chemical Engineer by training with 3 decades of experience in capital equipment projects\, his understanding of the application of Dimensional Analysis as a tool in augmenting human and machine understanding of the physical reality around us has informed and been manifest in various iterations of ‘Organism\, an Engineering Ecosystem’. \n— \nRubinson\, Claude is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: Houston Functional Programmers\nTime: Third Wednesdays\, 7-9pm Central Time \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://uhd.zoom.us/j/83668672256?pwd=Wld3QXhkczVMaktYYmJQUnp2aG5VZz09 \nMeeting ID: 836 6867 2256\nPasscode: recursion \n— \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,83668672256# US (Houston)\n+16699006833\,\,83668672256# US (San Jose) \n— \nDial by your location\n• +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n• +1 720 928 9299 US (Denver)\n• +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) \nMeeting ID: 836 6867 2256 \nFind your local number: https://uhd.zoom.us/u/khzdUKqt3
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