Agreed. Ideally, a new language/api will emerge that learns from the successes and failures of R. Something that is designed to be used as it is used presently, that incorporates Hadley Wickham's ideas, that has a less quirky OOP system, and that is more readable.

Perhaps currying/function compositions could be encouraged to avoid(hard, to(read(nested, functions))). However, being unexperienced with currying/function compositions, I have no idea if that would complicate the language...