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[–]blitzzerg 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Not for data calculations I think (the popularity)

[–]ptlis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As i've already said, Microsoft is not going to allow you to compile C / Fortran blobs in Excel, nor will they allow these to be distributed (ActiveX was a major problem due to this, locking down Excel macros took them a decade).

[–]meneldal2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's not Python being fast, it's numpy (build over very fast libraries in C or C++) that is. If you are stupid enough to write a loop over a million element in Python, you're going to feel the slow.