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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by cwyers on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:21AM (#21188738)
I know of exactly nobody who was happy with how the Perl 5 to Perl 6 transition went, or the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. I think not ever having a firm cutover like that was beneficial to R.

EDIT: And yes, as citrate05 says, it's just an additional set of libraries. There's no changes to the language itself.

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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by skinnymuch on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:31PM (#21195454)
Python wasn’t pretty but I’m happy it was done. Than if we were still on python 2 with only a portion of the changes. There would be a lot of discontent if that was the case too.
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