Could you point out where in that pamphlet there are criticisms of R? I see a Scheme tutorial prefaced by a petulant diatribe against programming languages that

Could you point out where in that pamphlet there are criticisms of R? I see a Scheme tutorial prefaced by a petulant diatribe against programming languages that are not Scheme, and nothing specific about R. I quote, “On the other hand, being a rather seasoned Schemer, I knew that most of these languages were only inferior incarnations of Lisp, and I could find little value in learning a new syntactical disguise for those well-established concepts. I was very soon to find out that my skepticism was right, and that learning R would require internalizing a lot of unfortunate idiosyncrasies that the authors of the language had chosen for their own reasons, and that I would be constantly stumbling over those incomprehensible limitations and discrep- ancies between common practices and the language developers’ decisions.” And, “However, the case of the R programming language is particularly interesting, because initially it was just a harmless implementation of Scheme; but then as a result of the irresponsible experiments of mad scientists it mutated into a monster.” I have a hard time taking this seriously, and it probably isn’t meant to be taken as such. It has practically nothing to do with R so I don’t know why one would bring it up.