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

[Michael Tamillow]

Well, entropy always increases, so theoretically hell HAS to freeze over eventually...

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> On Dec 19, 2017, at 8:15 PM, Mark Graves <mgraves87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No surprise here.
> 
> Hell froze over a year ago:
> 
> https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239616-hell-freezes-microsoft-joins-linux-foundation
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 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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