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

[Jacob Taylor]

D exists, but the adoption rate is pretty low. It's supposed to be the 
successor to C++, but meh. I don't know much about it.
-Jacob

On 2/20/2009 10:26 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
> 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 -----
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -bill!
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