What language are Excel formulas written in?

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Hi there,

What language are Excel formulas/functions written in? I refer to the formula bar, rather than the VBA.
I guess this language must have some sort of a name.

Thanks.
 

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The actual code behind Excel functions is written in one of the C languages, I believe. The language of Excel formulas themselves (OFFSET, COUNT etc) does not have its own name really.
 
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Thanks. That's a bit strange, isn't it? If you create a whole "programming" language (from the view that Excel can be considered declarative programming) you would like to give it a name. So how one could/should refer to it (in officially correspondence)?
 
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"Excel formula language", I guess. :)
 
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