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I'm not saying you're wrong, but this sounds exactly like the arguments made supporting Perl, which is an interesting comparison.
by gh02t 11y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this sounds exactly like the arguments made supporting Perl, which is an interesting comparison.
- TheLogothete 11y agoIt is an interesting comparison for sure, but things are different for two reasons: 1) Software and related services will grow immensely over the next decade because of the "cloud". Some of the growth will be same old, same old application logic software, but most of it will be data analysis software. 2) The language of choice for data analysis software is and will be R due to the biggest software companies (both #1 and #2, among many others) standing firmly behind it along with universities incorporating it in its curriculum, ditching SPSS and SAS.
- xixi77 11y agoWell, both are pretty great languages (not without issues, but what is?), and there are a lot of similarities -- "more than one way to do it" of course, and CRAN and CPAN have much in common (I do wish CRAN took a few lessons from CPAN though).