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R "as a language" is much easier if you don't come in with the Standard c-ish language blinders on
by jghn 12y ago
R "as a language" is much easier if you don't come in with the Standard c-ish language blinders on
- earino 12y agothere was a great keynote at this last useR! conference by John Chambers about how R's predecessor, S, was designed as an interface language (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hcpuRB5nGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hcpuRB5nGs). He discusses how as part of it's fundamental cognitive model, it was there to provide a facile interactive "interface" to best-of-breed algorithms. Very few other programming languages have that pedigree, they were mostly designed to architect systems.