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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 19:31:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 16:45:04 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:25:01 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd bet a decent python script would do it in minutes, with a tiny
>>> footprint and be reliable.
>> 
>> Even Microsoft realizes that now.
> 
> I presume you're referring to excel now including a python interpreter.
> I don't think it's much of an improvement.

Obviously Microsoft is expecting its users to think otherwise. And it 
wants to charge them for the privilege, so it must be expecting them to 
believe it’s an improvement worth paying extra money for.

So either Python is that much better than VBA, or VBA is that much worse 
than Python. Take your pick. ;)