[R] The difference between SAS and R

[Greg Snow]

When I first saw that comic, my thought was "where would APL fit in
that graph?" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language))

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:00 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 20 Dec 2013, at 18:53 , Kevin Wright <kw.stat at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> SAS uses words.  R uses symbols.
>>
>> See this:
>> http://xkcd.com/1306/
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>> (Yes, I know IML uses plenty of symbols.  It's just supposed to be funny.
>> And somewhat true.)
>>
>
> Actually, R is on par with C++ when it comes to _prefixed_ symbols like #missedthepoint, which is what the XKCD strip is about. In terms of general operators, SAS would be approaching COBOL (famous for "ADD YEARS TO AGE" like construct) were it not for the DATA step and the %MACRO language.
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> (The preceding XKCD (1305) is quite nice, by the way.)
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