• Walter Bright (2/2) Sep 04 2010 Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D.
• Jordi Sayol (4/6) Sep 04 2010 :-)
• dsimcha (14/16) Sep 04 2010 This one makes me laugh especially because there's actually an R program...
• some lurker (2/20) Sep 04 2010 Sounds a lot like matlab.
• JMRyan (9/11) Sep 04 2010 R and S are approximately the same thing. So checking the documentation...

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html

Jordi Sayol <g.sayol yahoo.es> writes:

Al 04/09/10 21:16, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit:
 Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D.

 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html

:-)

-- 
Jordi Sayol

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 digitalmars.com)'s article
 Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D.
 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html

This one makes me laugh especially because there's actually an R programming
language that I occasionally have to use, and I generally hate it.  It's
basically
a domain specific language for statistics and not well-known outside the
statistics community.

The biggest problem with it is poor documentation of basic things like builtin
data structures.  D's documentation looks great in comparison.  The other one is
that it's too high-level, domain specific and slow (even compared to other
interpreted languages) to be easy to think of as a "real" programming language.
At the same time it's too low-level and lacking in simple (i.e. GUI or single
command) ways to do simple things to be easy to think of as a plain old
application.  Basically, you have to program to use it, but when you try, if
you're used to "real" languages you feel like you're programming with 8 of your
fingers crushed.

some lurker <nomail nomail.com> writes:

dsimcha Wrote:

 == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 digitalmars.com)'s article
 Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D.
 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html

 
 This one makes me laugh especially because there's actually an R programming
 language that I occasionally have to use, and I generally hate it.  It's
basically
 a domain specific language for statistics and not well-known outside the
 statistics community.
 
 The biggest problem with it is poor documentation of basic things like builtin
 data structures.  D's documentation looks great in comparison.  The other one
is
 that it's too high-level, domain specific and slow (even compared to other
 interpreted languages) to be easy to think of as a "real" programming language.
 At the same time it's too low-level and lacking in simple (i.e. GUI or single
 command) ways to do simple things to be easy to think of as a plain old
 application.  Basically, you have to program to use it, but when you try, if
 you're used to "real" languages you feel like you're programming with 8 of your
 fingers crushed.

Sounds a lot like matlab.

JMRyan <nospam nospam.com> writes:

dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> wrote in news:i5ue7v$1sp0$1 digitalmars.com:

 The biggest problem with it is poor documentation of basic things like
 builtin data structures.

R and S are approximately the same thing.  So checking the documentation 
for S may help.  Maybe you already knew that.

S-Plus may be faster and easier to deal with than R.  It's probably 
expensive.  If you are associated with a university, you can probably get a 
site license for under $200.

I've never dealt with either language, so I probably know less about all of 
this than you do.  But if you didn't, you may very well want to check into 
S-Plus.  Just be glad you don't have to deal with SAS.