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by stcredzero 5694 days ago
How about a spreadsheet that uses R as its scripting language? (There's one of these for Python.)
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util 5694 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RExcel
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8ren 5694 days ago
I don't know if business people do a lot of scripting (if any) in spreadsheets, because it side-steps the ease-of-use GUI of spreadsheet in favour of a programmer's UI...
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something 5694 days ago
look inside your average quantitative analysis or risk management group and you'll see that they definitely do.
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