Hello all,

There is currently a (very !) lively discussions happening around the
web, surrounding the following topics:
1) Is R efficient? (scripting wise, and performance wise)
2) Should R be written from scratch?
3) What should be the license of R (if it was made a new)?

Very serious people have taken part in the debates so far.  I hope to let
you know of the places I came by, so you might be able to follow/participate
in these (IMHO) important discussions.

The discussions started in the response for the following blog post on
Xi'An's blog:
http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/insane/
Followed by the (short) response post by Ross Ihaka:
http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/simply-start-over-and-build-something-better/
Other discussions started to appear on Andrew Gelman's blog:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/09/ross_ihaka_to_r.html
And (many) more responses started to appear in the hackers news website:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687054


I hope these discussions will have fruitful results for our community,
Tal

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