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and people complain about C++ but actually i quite like R for graphing and such stuff, despite wrestling with the syntax.
by zabzonk 3y ago
and people complain about C++
but actually i quite like R for graphing and such stuff, despite wrestling with the syntax.
- fithisux 3y agoI think syntax needs some more work. I am hopeful of S7 but I still believe that R needs some proper PL engineering. It has many dangerous corner cases and mutability when it shouldn't. I migrated to Julia for my experiments/computations. Safer. Still R has some great ideas but not developed to their proper extend. S7 is in the right direction. Satic typing could also be a big thing.
- hackandthink 3y agoHad never heard of S7, I thought it was a joke at first. https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/index.html https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/index.html
- hermitcrab 3y agoA visual approach with nodes and arrows gets around language syntax issues. However it comes own challenges, e.g. descending into a spaghetti mess if you aren't careful.
- owlstuffing 3y agoR scratches an itch no other language quite manages to reach, which is why it is used despite its peculiarities. Lots of languages exist[ed], more or less, for the same reason (php and javascript come to mind).