[R] [friday topic]: what exactly is statistical computing

[Joel J. Adamson]

Bos, Roger writes:
 > I have seen you on this list for a while.  You already know all this.  I
 > am not sure why you are asking this question.
 > 
 > Roger

I think "[friday topic]" means "fun discussion."

I agree with your main comment Roger; I often think about the power of
"straight-up" languages like C, Java, etc., and wonder "Why do we need
so many statistical packages, much less totally awesome ones like S?"
  It would be a pain to have to program everything from scratch, and
having something like R eases the communication routes.

Joel

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Joel J. Adamson
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