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Right. I wasn't saying that there didn't exist such packages, of course there are. I was pointing out that the reason a programming language looks good to a p
by kenjackson 16y ago
Right. I wasn't saying that there didn't exist such packages, of course there are. I was pointing out that the reason a programming language looks good to a programmer and not a statistician is due domain expertise. And of course the common trap programmers fall into is assuming the domain is programming.
And don't lump R in with Python. And good statistician would have your neck. You mention S, but again S doesn't look anything like Python either.
- masklinn 16y agoI only see him "lumping R in with Python" in that they're both full-blown programming languages and TFAA apparently hates them both because they're programming languages. _delirium is merely pointing out that there are push-button packages for statistics, and that statisticians using programming languages (be they statistics-oriented or not) usually do so because they want to or because they need to (as the push-button stuff is not sufficient for their needs, for instance)