There was an award session at the Vancouver JSM where both Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman spoke. The simply-start-over post sounds very much like Ross's JSM talk. Robert's response was much more positive - coming from the perspective of developing BioConductor I think. I don't recall the details, but the cartoon version is something like "R isn't really broken".
albyn On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:51:39PM +0200, Tal Galili wrote: > Hello all, > > There is currently a (very !) lively discussions happening around the > web, surrounding the following topics: > 1) Is R efficient? (scripting wise, and performance wise) > 2) Should R be written from scratch? > 3) What should be the license of R (if it was made a new)? > > Very serious people have taken part in the debates so far. I hope to let > you know of the places I came by, so you might be able to follow/participate > in these (IMHO) important discussions. > > The discussions started in the response for the following blog post on > Xi'An's blog: > http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/insane/ > Followed by the (short) response post by Ross Ihaka: > http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/simply-start-over-and-build-something-better/ > Other discussions started to appear on Andrew Gelman's blog: > http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/09/ross_ihaka_to_r.html > And (many) more responses started to appear in the hackers news website: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687054 > > > I hope these discussions will have fruitful results for our community, > Tal > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Albyn Jones Reed College jo...@reed.edu ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.