Not sure I buy this. R is a language with parser and interpreter. Parser spits out an AST and interpreter evaluates nodes according to rules. This is the same i

Not sure I buy this. R is a language with parser and interpreter. Parser spits out an AST and interpreter evaluates nodes according to rules. This is the same in every other sane language. AST is pretty much the same in every language. There is no reason R’s parser and language can’t be replaced with something sane. And it really is insane and horrible.