> Granted, there are a bunch of R haters (especially from people with formal CS educations), I think this convention makes a lot of sense. To be clear, the ass

> Granted, there are a bunch of R haters (especially from people with formal CS educations), I think this convention makes a lot of sense. To be clear, the assignment syntax is great, it's other things that are the target of R haters' hate! Like a high-level language without hash tables.