Karl-Dieter Crisman <kcrisman at gmail.com> writes:
> Rewriting R, on the other hand, makes no sense; the sheer number of
> *quality* user-contributed packages to R is one of its strongest
> suits, one that could never be replicated. (In fact, it's why so many
> people are ditching the proprietary guys for R. There are at least
> FOUR companies which intend to eventually make a profit supporting or
> adding on to R in some fashion.)
I suspect that you're right that rewriting R would be silly, but this
isn't really an argument for that statement. After all, if I wrote a
lisp-hosted implementation of the core of R, all the excellent
user-contributed packages would theoretically run just fine on my
implementation too...
Rupert
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