R is explicitly designed around S-expressions and as such lends itself to domain-specific languages like these. The choice was not an accident either by the or

R is explicitly designed around S-expressions and as such lends itself to domain-specific languages like these. The choice was not an accident either by the original Rs (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka) nor by Hadley. Guido has explicitly stated that he does not want Python to be "more lispy" e.g. in regards to lambdas (asterisk). Thus I've seen many people even at, say, Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge going back to R from Python. Sometimes there does not exist a language that best suits a workflow, and a DSL works better. That is where lispy languages hold an advantage. Use the right tool for the the job, imho, but I fucking hate people that mix the two within a project intended for wide public release. Worst of both worlds, again imho. (Asterisk) apparently functional data structures such as iterators and generators are OK though. Wtf guido