> > 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. The original S language from

> > 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. The original S language from the Bell Labs (and the commercial version S-PLUS) used dynamic scoping (like Emacs lisp). https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/lexical.pdf https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/lexical.pdf