One Year with R

Re:One Year with R by jdougan on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:33AM (#30766554)

There is an better alternate universe where xlisp-stat doesn't fall behind and S doesn't happen.

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Re:One Year with R by peatmoss on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @10:56AM (#30766850)

Interestingly, there appears to be an attempted reboot: https://lisp-stat.dev/

My first reaction, is "why not on a modern Scheme as opposed to Common Lisp" and in so thinking, I have demonstrated exactly why no lisp / scheme has ever achieved critical mass :-)

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Re:One Year with R by jhgb on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:22PM (#30771008)

I would think that the reasons for "why not Scheme" would include the fact that CL has more existing libraries, better built-in support for multidimensional arrays, efficient low-level code (now even with SIMD on SBCL using SB-SIMD), application-controlled JIT compilation of specialized code, almost guaranteed support for native multithreading, etc.

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Re:One Year with R by kwccoin on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:10AM (#30776864)

Shocking. I still using the xlisp-stat based social simulation book first edition (20+ years ago). The move to ... does not fit my mind. I do not know there is a re-start!!!

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Re:One Year with R by jdougan on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @11:16AM (#30767092)

Obvious answer: 3rd party library support. Same thing that makes R ubiquitous.

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