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Is it clear people wanted to get away from Lisp rather than use a more-or-less clone of S? (One of R's originators did propose moving back to a Lisp base [1],

by gnufx 4y ago

Is it clear people wanted to get away from Lisp rather than use a more-or-less clone of S? (One of R's originators did propose moving back to a Lisp base [1], though part of the justification was HPC, which is now at least partially covered [2].) However, much as I like Lisp, I do want a mixfix syntax for interactive use like R, but something CGOL-ish is easy enough; I don't remember xlisp-stat having something like that. 1. https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-20... 2. https://pbdr.org https://pbdr.org

wrp 4y ago
> Is it clear people wanted to get away from Lisp rather than use a more-or-less clone of S? That's a good point. How many statisticians were familiar with S but were using Lisp-Stat just because it was free? I don't seem to have traveled in those circles. I wasn't paying a lot of attention, but I don't remember encountering that on campus. Another slick Lisp package that got too little attention was Yann LeCun's Lush.