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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Alex Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
R was also invented before the internet and it's derived from S. I think<br>
15+ years later they have realized it's a bit of a problem.<br>
Also note it still requires a fortran compiler to compile.<br>
<br>
Ale<br>
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Bill Ward wrote:<br>
> One would think after C people would have learned that it's silly to name a<br>
> programming language after a letter...<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Bill Kendrick <<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net">nbs@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> Seen on SF-LUG's list:<br>
>><br>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Will McGinnis -----<br>
>><br>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:58:37 -0800<br>
>> From: Will McGinnis<br>
>> Subject: [sf-lug] R (programming language) Bay Area Users Group<br>
>><br>
>> For those into statistics, data mining, and all that fun stuff R is<br>
>> used in, there's a R Bay Area users group. The next meetup is March<br>
>> 11th in SF.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.meetup.com/R-Users" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/R-Users</a><br>
>> <a href="http://dataspora.com/blog/predictive-analytics-using-r/" target="_blank">http://dataspora.com/blog/predictive-analytics-using-r/</a><br>
>><br>
>> I discovered it through a reddit article linking to that blog post.<br>
>> That Predictive Analytics World sounds pretty wild, I wish i was deep<br>
>> into this a while ago.<br>
>><br>
>> ----- End forwarded message -----<br>
>><br>
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