This sounds like a highly biased perspective of both R, and what it means for a language to be respectable. If you define a language that "will expand your pro

This sounds like a highly biased perspective of both R, and what it means for a language to be respectable. If you define a language that "will expand your programming views" as one that can verify correctness easily then yeah, R is terrible at that. But so are many languages that are as flexible as R. Would you have the same opinion of FORTH? Or LISP? or TCL? I think these languages definitely count as "hacky" languages and yet they don't seem to draw the same derision as R (in my experience)