Hear tell it was begat of an unholy tryst between PHP and Excel, but I am not judging. A much less flippant answer it was a work-a-like intended as a successor

Hear tell it was begat of an unholy tryst between PHP and Excel, but I am not judging. A much less flippant answer it was a work-a-like intended as a successor to a (licensed) stats language 'S'. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language)