# Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

<https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-lambda-turn-excel-formulas-into-custom-functions/ba-p/1925546>

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## What Jamie wrote

This seems like some sort of inception moment.

> For folks with a computer science background, you’re probably already familiar with the concept of [lambdas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function), and the introduction of LAMBDA makes the Excel formula language [Turing Complete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness)…

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