Excel has a built-in ability to code using visual basic, your want to enable the developer tab. Once you get the basics down there is not to many differences between languages, most is built around C. Data types and functions maybe different along with some small structure but your be able to convert as you use them more. Most standalone languages can be made to read/write with excel, I actually use python to parse excels to generate arrays for running in my vhdl test benches.
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