> scientists are much more likely to enjoy the lisp nature of R That confused me a great deal. Julia seems more lispy than R. From the comment section it seems

> scientists are much more likely to enjoy the lisp nature of R That confused me a great deal. Julia seems more lispy than R. From the comment section it seems that you have perhaps implicitly decided apriori that R is better. So you would rationalize out of evidence and examples of situations to the contrary.