> R's biggest sin is failure to force people to use functional paradigms by providing juuuust enough imperative sugar to make average Joe programmer feel at hom

> R's biggest sin is failure to force people to use functional paradigms by providing juuuust enough imperative sugar to make average Joe programmer feel at home. R is a functional language, and that's the principle under which is should be taught. 100% in agreement. That states what I have discovered after learning Functional programming. The sad thing is people don't know that it is functional PAST first class functions. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40447-4_12 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40447-4...