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A lot of programmers dislike R for the same reason they dislike PHP: weak typing. If you can get over that, though, there's a lot to like about R. It's sort of
by kyllo 3y ago
A lot of programmers dislike R for the same reason they dislike PHP: weak typing.
If you can get over that, though, there's a lot to like about R. It's sort of like a hybrid between a Lisp and an array language.
- chaxor 3y agoIirc the scoping is also very strange. Certainly not as bad as mathematica, but bad nonetheless.
- mike_ivanov 3y agoWeak typing? No, it's not. R is a strongly typed language. > 1 + "string" Error in 1 + "str" : non-numeric argument to binary operator
- goatlover 3y agoJavascript and C also have weak typing. And Python isn't statically typed, it's just that like Ruby, it doesn't allow implicit conversion, except with numbers.