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Microsoft Considers Adding Python as an Official Scripting Language to Excel

• mindcrime 9y ago
  That's cool and all, but FWIW, you could just use OpenOffice today and have the immediate ability to write macros / extensions in any of: Python Java Javascript Beanshell OpenOffice Basic And the Java support also entails support for any language that compiles to JVM bytecode, so you can write macros in Clojure, Groovy, Scala, JRuby, Jython, etc. as well. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Scripting/Scripting_Framework https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Scri... You can also write your own language providers, and there are OSS providers out there for things like R and others. And you can always program against the UDK directly using C++ if you want. https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno So basically... use OpenOffice and you can do your programming in Python R Java C++ Beanshell Javascript Groovy Scala Clojure Basic JRuby etc., etc.
  • vorg 9y ago
    Most people use LibreOffice which forked from Apache OpenOffice, rather than OpenOffice itself, because it's being maintained. At one stage I had both installed on my computer because OpenOffice was better for powerpoints, and LibreOffice for everything else. You can see a summary of LibreOffice scripting at https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting , which says "LibreOffice internally supports the following scripting languages: LibreOffice Basic, JavaScript, BeanShell, Python. In addition, developers can use high-level languages, for example Java programming language, to control LibreOffice externally."
    • mindcrime 9y ago
      OpenOffice is maintained. Please don't spread FUD.