I'm hoping that -- and will be pleased by the irony if -- the HN discussion has less language war than the MR discussion. It's worth knowing, for economists, h

I'm hoping that -- and will be pleased by the irony if -- the HN discussion has less language war than the MR discussion. It's worth knowing, for economists, how well economists can write code in different languages. But I'm sure I, too, would write better C++ than R, since I've not written any R at all. They would need to ask economists skilled in each language to write the code to get a better answer, and there would still be a lot of noise in the signal. EDIT last sentence was gibbgersh