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I was just thinking today that I have very mixed feelings about Hadley, despite not knowing him -- on the positive side, his works (in my mind) transform R from
by shanusmagnus 12y ago
I was just thinking today that I have very mixed feelings about Hadley, despite not knowing him -- on the positive side, his works (in my mind) transform R from a horrific language to a tolerable one, which is an astounding feat. On the negative side, if he hadn't made such momentous contributions, maybe people would have abandoned the bloody thing by now and we'd be using Julia instead.
- hadley 12y agoI'll choose to take that as a compliment :p
- zzleeper 12y agoAlso my feeling. You've been a great inspiration about how to write great and useful code, but I still feel like the many great features of R (as you said some time ago, NA handling, data frames, etc.) are sometimes outweighed by the cons. Quick question: what would you tell the Julia guys as a recommendation? Even though they are "competition", you probably have strong feelings about what features of R must be in any language that aims to replace.
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