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

[Joshua Herman]

It’s not like they haven’t tried to replace Visual Basic though.
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:24 AM Michael Tamillow <mikaeltamillow96 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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