Is it conceivable that Julia could be ported to use R syntax in a way that would allow the vastly larger numbers of R programmers to seamlessly switch? Or equivalently, could an iteration of R itself do this?
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 9:00 AM Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > When it was being actively worked on, it had the advantage of existing. > > Hadley > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why is the described system preferable to Julia? > > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > I read this paper > >> > <https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf> > and > >> > haven't been able to find out what happened - I have seen some > sporadic > >> > mention in message groups but nothing definitive. Does anyone know? > >> > >> Presumably Ross does... > >> > >> You get a hint if you go one level up and look for the newest file: > >> > >> https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/New-System.pdf > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > >> Phone: (+45)38153501 > >> Office: A 4.23 > >> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > http://hadley.nz > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel