[Chicago] Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback

[Michael Tamillow]

My feedback: this should have been a conversation 20 years ago.

Or as Anatoly Petrosyan <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQBR6IthS4>
always said: "Why must why, just do"

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Lane Campbell <lane at strapr.com> wrote:

> Excel had some bad press lately about being difficult to connect with
> outside data sources for real time reporting.  This is likely the most
> reasonable approach to solving that while simultaneously embracing and
> extending the open source ecosystem they so badly wanted to extinguish in
> the past.
>
> These days though cloud is a cash cow for them and I think it’s reasonable
> they would support python for the long term in multiple aspects with regard
> to their office suite.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Not at all
> I think they are actually making an upgrade path from VBA to python
>
> Making magic spreadsheets is nearly every job in a corporation
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM Jeremy McMillan <jeremy.mcmillan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This looks like Microsoft realizing they are losing to Jupyter Notebook
>> and Pandas + Matpotlib.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:38 PM, JP Bader <jp at zavteq.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  http://hn.premii.com/#/comments/15927132
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