> Indeed, it is a variant of S with lexical scoping to make large code bases cleaner I have no clue where he's getting this. R have 3-4 ways to make a class b

> Indeed, it is a variant of S with lexical scoping to make large code bases cleaner I have no clue where he's getting this. R have 3-4 ways to make a class btw. The code base isn't cleaner. Most packages that need speed is coded in faster languages. So R is gluey for packages. The code base is decent overall but I think Python is much better. > Python does everything any language can do I want it to preemptively stop processes like Erlang but it can't. So this is wrong. > The Python world has been trying to catch up lately by working with existing IDEs like Eclipse or Visual Studio. It have Rstudio equivalent, it's Rodeo.... this guy. He mentioned it later on for some reason which contradict his previous statement. I think the article is unorganized brain dump. Maybe he just need to reorganize his thoughts.