[vox] [fwd] R (programming language) Bay Area Users Group

[Bill Ward]

Well, I'd never heard of either of those before... just B and C.  I had
always wondered if the successor to C would be named D or P, but Bjarne went
with C++ just to avoid the issue is my guess.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:

> R was also invented before the internet and it's derived from S. I think
>  15+ years later they have realized it's a bit of a problem.
> Also note it still requires a fortran compiler to compile.
>
> Ale
>
> Bill Ward wrote:
> > One would think after C people would have learned that it's silly to name
> a
> > programming language after a letter...
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Seen on SF-LUG's list:
> >>
> >> ----- Forwarded message from Will McGinnis -----
> >>
> >> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:58:37 -0800
> >> From: Will McGinnis
> >> Subject: [sf-lug] R (programming language) Bay Area Users Group
> >>
> >> For those into statistics, data mining, and all that fun stuff R is
> >> used in, there's a R Bay Area users group. The next meetup is March
> >> 11th in SF.
> >>
> >> http://www.meetup.com/R-Users
> >> http://dataspora.com/blog/predictive-analytics-using-r/
> >>
> >> I discovered it through a reddit article linking to that blog post.
> >> That Predictive Analytics World sounds pretty wild, I wish i was deep
> >> into this a while ago.
> >>
> >> ----- End forwarded message -----
> >>
> >> --
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