> But for actually programming it is atrocious. I really hope you are not using R for anything outside data science, physics, or other analysis. It was develop

> But for actually programming it is atrocious. I really hope you are not using R for anything outside data science, physics, or other analysis. It was developed to do these things, not 'actual programming', which I imagine you define as creating some framework or application. Most of the people that don't like R seem to want to use it outside of its use cases, and get frustrated when they fail.