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Lisp was my first and last love. But I left her years ago due to lack of libraries and etc. Work mostly in R these days, but I do mess with my .emacs file every
by mellavora 12y ago
Lisp was my first and last love. But I left her years ago due to lack of libraries and etc. Work mostly in R these days, but I do mess with my .emacs file every now and then.
Similar experience to yours, Mandus.
(oh, post-doc in computational biology, which should qualify as one branch of computationally heavy science)
- codygman 12y agoJust getting into R, what are some killer features it has CL doesn't?
- RBerenguel 12y agoA huge amount of useful, user-created libraries for many statistical, ML, programming tasks. CL has some, but R has lots more traction in that realm.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoStraight out of the box you get "a lot" of statistical functionality (not to mention things like easy io), a good repl on osx, and incredible plotting functionality is available almost instantly thru installing ggplot2.
- mellavora 12y agoit also is an interactive language, much like CL. This is a killer feature for exploratory work. The other two posts are right about the main differentiators.