"Matlab, SAS, and Stata, all of which R makes look like APL" -- I am a little confused, what do you mean by that? (and tbh, I would not call either SAS or Stat

"Matlab, SAS, and Stata, all of which R makes look like APL" -- I am a little confused, what do you mean by that? (and tbh, I would not call either SAS or Stata matrix programming particularly graceful -- it's pretty hard to beat Matlab at that though)