Several months ago the Excel folk within Microsoft asked users whether they'd like to have Python as an alternative scripting language in Office. Support for that was overwhelming, but nothing more was said on the matter since then. I guess this is Microsoft's answer.
It's basically a functional programming language with a UI that lets you view the memory cells directly, and adds some sugar on top of that memdump.:) And VBA isn't exactly weaker than Python either.
Excel (Score:5, Interesting)
Several months ago the Excel folk within Microsoft asked users whether they'd like to have Python as an alternative scripting language in Office. Support for that was overwhelming, but nothing more was said on the matter since then. I guess this is Microsoft's answer.
Re:Excel (Score:4)
Sounds insecure. Don't people mail spreadsheets around? There's a reason not many people use Grail as their browser.
Re:Excel (Score:4, Interesting)
You understand the whole point of Excel, yes?
It's basically a functional programming language with a UI that lets you view the memory cells directly, and adds some sugar on top of that memdump. :)
And VBA isn't exactly weaker than Python either.