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To say that R is a domain-specific language is hardly a criticism, though. It was designed to be domain-specific from the start.
by lottin 7y ago
To say that R is a domain-specific language is hardly a criticism, though. It was designed to be domain-specific from the start.
- mbreese 7y agoI’d say one of the major problems I have with R is when people try to use it as a general purpose language. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It just wasn’t designed that way. I’ve seen a lot of R code that would have been trivial to write and execute significantly faster in another language. But for its domain, I think R is great. I guess when all you have is a hammer...