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   by lionel- 8y ago

   Are you talking about Half-Life? ;)
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   by lionel- 8y ago

   Maybe you could do a "I can do data science in a GUI" talk and amaze us all (addressing all points the OP made). Hadley has been working for years on making data science programming with R accessible: development of expressive dom
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   by lionel- 8y ago

   You can use environments for hash tables.
4. 4.▲
   by lionel- 8y ago

   It is bad practice because you are hiding the side effect.
5. 5.▲
   by lionel- 8y ago

   What about `a = a + 1`?
6. 6.▲
   by lionel- 9y ago

   There's nothing weird about closure-based scoping. You find this in Python, R, Javascript, ... It has roots in the lambda calculus.
7. 7.▲
   by lionel- 9y ago

   The point of this kind of UI is that they become an extension of yourself. Saying these UI are old and clunky is exactly like saying a keyboard is old and clunky.
8. 8.▲
   by lionel- 9y ago

   That problem (solved in recent versions) has nothing to do with pipes though.
9. 9.▲
   by lionel- 9y ago

   Unlispy? What about threading macros? The voodoo you're referring to is simply computing on the language, which is quite lispy as well.
10. 10.▲
    by lionel- 9y ago

    That's called a model.