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Dplyr (and its spin-off dbplyr) is to me a fantastic practical example of the power of lispy metaprogramming. While R gets knocked a lot for not being a "real"
by peatmoss 5y ago
Dplyr (and its spin-off dbplyr) is to me a fantastic practical example of the power of lispy metaprogramming. While R gets knocked a lot for not being a "real" programming language, or being weird, or just generally being different than e.g. Python, I don't know that I've seen a cooler example of high-level programming language ideas expressed as cleanly.
Ditto the rest of the tidyverse.
- mbrudd 5y agoAgree 100%!
- kristjansson 5y agoR’s waxing popularity is a testament to that power. dplyr and friends effectively reject much of the R-the-language and substitute their own friendlier, more popular syntax without rejecting R-the-platform.