"Good software is written by programmers." Well I think that everybody will agree that R is not good software. It's still useful, though. A couple of idiotic

"Good software is written by programmers." Well I think that everybody will agree that R is not good software. It's still useful, though. A couple of idiotic things about R have already been posted in this thread, let me add one of my pet peeves: "how does one get the path of the currently executing script?". Last time I looked, the answer was "there is no way to do so without relying on implementation details that can and have changed between minor releases.". Lol, that's pathetic. Now that Microsoft has made substantial investments in R, I hope that at least they'll fix the major issues in embedding R through the C api. (and no, Rcpp is substandard - it doesn't even support the msvc compiler).