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		Animats on June 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R HN is predisposed to hate R because everyone here is coming from a "real" programming context. There is that. Matlab has the same problem. One problem with "real programming languages" is that programmers who grew up with C don't see any need for built-in multidimensional arrays. This is one reason FORTRAN is still around, and why array work is straightforward in Matlab and R.

int_19h on June 14, 2018 [–]

It seems to be partly because they're rarely used in general purpose code even when they are there. Just look at C#.

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