Category Archives: Programming

Why R doesn't suck

I first encountered the R programming language a few years ago when I needed to make some plots. Although I’ve used it occasionally since, I always considered it a sort of “Perl for statisticians” — a useful swiss-army knife with … Continue reading

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Do we really need another programming language?

Yesterday, a group inside Google released a new programming language called go. Among the many comments on the new language, I noticed a number of people rhetorically asking if there is really room for more programming languages. I’ve seen the … Continue reading

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