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lionel-
8y ago
Are you talking about Half-Life? ;)
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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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lionel-
8y ago
You can use environments for hash tables.
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lionel-
8y ago
It is bad practice because you are hiding the side effect.
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lionel-
8y ago
What about `a = a + 1`?
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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.
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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.
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lionel-
9y ago
That problem (solved in recent versions) has nothing to do with pipes though.
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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.
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9y ago
That's called a model.