You can already embed Python in Excel. There's a few different projects that do this; here's one: http://www.bnikolic.co.uk/expy/expy.html http://www.bnikolic.c

You can already embed Python in Excel. There's a few different projects that do this; here's one: http://www.bnikolic.co.uk/expy/expy.html http://www.bnikolic.co.uk/expy/expy.html The article doesn't do any close human-factor analysis of why Excel is so much more accessible than programming languages; it's the lower abstraction bar. No need to name variables in functions when you can just click on the cell you want. No need to create loops when you can drag an already entered formula across a number of cells. Excel is a direct-manipulation programming environment, not a language, and a language can't compete here. But I wish them luck; they diagnose the problem reasonably well, if not the solution.