I'm guessing the popularity of Python is why they're going with it. Quants and other power users are starting to drop Excel and moving on to Python, so they fig

I'm guessing the popularity of Python is why they're going with it. Quants and other power users are starting to drop Excel and moving on to Python, so they figure they might be able to keep some market share this way. Otherwise I'd guess they'd try to push one of their .net languages, probably C#.