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I think R is actually a rather great first language, as the focus is usually on doing cool stuff, rather than developing a rigorous framework for programming. I
by hadley 13y ago
I think R is actually a rather great first language, as the focus is usually on doing cool stuff, rather than developing a rigorous framework for programming. It's more important to put motivation before rigour, since if you focus only on rigour most people will lose interest before getting to the fun stuff.
- vikp 13y agoGreat point. I still wish I coded in R more, just because the MTTC (mean time to cool) is so much lower. But, I feel like you can do the same with sklearn/ipython notebook/pandas if you ignore the parts of the "rigorous framework", and just focus on the syntax for interesting things.