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I don't think R's OO is great; but it's mostly misunderstood because it's fundamentally different to most popular modern languages. Interesting Julia, uses exac
by hadley 11y ago
I don't think R's OO is great; but it's mostly misunderstood because it's fundamentally different to most popular modern languages. Interesting Julia, uses exactly the same model as R (I.e. Generic functions not message passing)
- mziel 11y agoMy main criticism is around two things. One, "clunkiness" of class creation (which I guess is subjective); I don't think it's very readable, but maybe that's bias from other languages. Second the S3/S4/R4 mess.