dsimcha Wrote: > == Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > > Obama: "You want to go forward, what do you do? You put it in D. > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/obamas-latest-joke-republicans.html > > This one makes me laugh especially because there's actually an R programming > language that I occasionally have to use, and I generally hate it. It's > basically > a domain specific language for statistics and not well-known outside the > statistics community. > > The biggest problem with it is poor documentation of basic things like builtin > data structures. D's documentation looks great in comparison. The other one > is > that it's too high-level, domain specific and slow (even compared to other > interpreted languages) to be easy to think of as a "real" programming > language. > At the same time it's too low-level and lacking in simple (i.e. GUI or single > command) ways to do simple things to be easy to think of as a plain old > application. Basically, you have to program to use it, but when you try, if > you're used to "real" languages you feel like you're programming with 8 of > your > fingers crushed.
Sounds a lot like matlab.
