On 12/23/06, Wensui Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from statisticians' point of view, which scripting language is worth > to learn, perl, python, or any other recommendation? (Most likely, I > will be learning it in windows.) Since I am not in research, I will > prefer one widely used in industry and related to statistical work.
It seems R would be the language of choice if you require "related to statistical work". I would be surprised if any general scripting language would restrict themselves to statistics. > if you recommend one, I will really appreciate it if you could point > out a good source for learning as well. I find Ruby to be the closest language to the way I think about programming. It's fully object oriented, dynamically typed, open-source, free, and runs on just about any platform. Sophisticated IDE's are available and it can also run easily from the command line (like Perl). Ruby is fun to use. There are a lot of online Ruby resources and also printed material. Here are just a few. Language overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29 Main Website: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ Learning Ruby: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/index.html http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ Give it a try online: http://tryruby.hobix.com/ Book: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ [NB: This free online book is for Ruby 1.6. Another printed and PDF book is available for Ruby 1.8] http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html Newsgroup: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby > thank you so much! Your welcome! > Have a happy holiday. Thank you, I am. 8-) I hope everyone is having a nice holiday. Richard Graham ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.