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Re:Q – A Data Language by psychometry on Monday March 03, 2014 @06:31PM (#7337369)
Non-rhetorical question: Why do people continue to do this? The number of unique names still available for a programming language is basically infinite, yet we get stuck with Go and R and C#.

Google is pretty smart about categorizing searches for languages like Ruby and Java (both common words), but with R especially it's often quite difficult to get relevant results.

Re:Q – A Data Language by jghn on Monday March 03, 2014 @08:44PM (#7337946)
R predates Google, and derives its name from S