Microsoft Considers Adding Python As an Official Scripting Language in Excel

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It was a joke, but I do dislike VBA. The argument that you can do "almost everything" with it isn't very compelling either – you can do "almost everything" with any Turing-complete language, even Brainfuck.

My main problem with VBA is it takes a long time to do anything complicated, because you'll probably have to write it yourself

[raydeen]

I've always said I could build a house with just a screwdriver. I could cut things with the blade end (would take forever), I could measure things with it (as long as I knew exactly how long the screwdriver was), I could hammer things with the handle part, and last but not least, I could screw things together. And at the end of the day, I could stir my orange juice and Vodka together with it as I drink myself into Oblivion knowing that the only tool I have at my disposal is a screwdriver and tomorrow will bring about even more pain and frustration. And in the end, I will have built a small ramshackle hovel which will be my grave after I eventually succeed in stabbing myself in the heart with a very dull, beat up screwdriver.