[R] An "R is slow"-article

Michael A. Miller mmiller3 at iupui.edu
Wed Jan 9 20:37:58 CET 2008


>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Gilbert <pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:

    > Gustaf Rydevik wrote:

    >> The author also have some thought-provoking opinions on R
    >> being no-good and that you should write everything in C

    > People used to say assembler, that's progress.

>From the FORTRAN Preliminary Report, IBM, November 1954:

  "FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging."




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