I was a C++ developer, and I love R for data analysis. I wouldn't write a compiler in it, but it's just incredibly easy to do data analysis in it. So it's not

I was a C++ developer, and I love R for data analysis. I wouldn't write a compiler in it, but it's just incredibly easy to do data analysis in it. So it's not a question of skills -- it's just well-designed for the task it was designed to do.