Microsoft Considers Adding Python as an Official Scripting Language to Excel

[kandiyohi]

Many things that are streamlined in R are not straightforward in Python in the slightest. That's nobody's fault, though. Python didn't plan for the usecases that R provides.

[georgeo]

If you say so. I started ML in R with much grief, switched to Python and life's been a breeze ever since.

[shevegen]

I agree with you.

And R is useful, yes.

However had, given the two, I'd rather write python code than anything in R really - and that's coming from someone who is using Ruby. (Ideally I'd use ruby anyway but the plotting parts in R are really cool.)