> R is a highly optimized, well-oiled machine if you're using it for its highly-optimized, well-oiled purposes.
This hits home for me. We are just starting to use R for risk modeling where I work. R, more than any language I've ever used, makes me appreciate "worse is better". From a theoretical "aesthetic" perspective R is a mess. Yet for data processing all those theoretical concerns don't matter. It just works.
It's honestly kind of humbling that something so theoretically messy can be so practically coherent. It makes me question my assumptions about simplicity.
This hits home for me. We are just starting to use R for risk modeling where I work. R, more than any language I've ever used, makes me appreciate "worse is better". From a theoretical "aesthetic" perspective R is a mess. Yet for data processing all those theoretical concerns don't matter. It just works.
It's honestly kind of humbling that something so theoretically messy can be so practically coherent. It makes me question my assumptions about simplicity.