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Hear, hear ! S-plus could have been a Microsoft product. It's
>> bloated and slow and it's everywhere.
>I don't want to start a statistical-computing religious war, but I'm
>curious about alternative suggestions to S-Plus and R. Is there
>another language that th
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> S-Plus is a powerful object-oriented language based on the S
> language (created at the same place that created the C language -
> ATT Bell Labs - C is for "computer" S for "statistics").
Ouch. C was called C becau
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Robert Dawson wrote:
> Radford Neal wrote:
> >
> > Finally, I doubt very much that the "C" language stands for "computer".
> > What would it's predecessor language, called "B", have stood for?
> >
> >Radford Neal
< snip, many delightful and _interesting_ details
"Loren M. McCarter" wrote:
>
> I don't want to start a statistical-computing religious war, but I'm
> curious about alternative suggestions to S-Plus and R. Is there
> another language that the anti-S-plus-crowd would recommend over
> S-Plus for graphical
ations. The free "R" look-alike for S may fix
> at least the badly-implemented part of this dilema.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan de Leeuw) writes:
> Hear, hear ! S-plus could have been a Microsoft product. It's
> bloated and slow and it's everywhere.
I don't wa
for output even without other users. On my identically
equipped SPARC 10 with S-plus 3.2 the time was of the order
"seconds". I have no benchmarks just the memory of astonishment.
>
>Date: 23 Feb 2000 00:59:46 GMT
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radford Neal)
>Subject: Re: statis
Sorry, this got mangled in posting. The first paragraph should have read:
> Believe it or not, "Basic". And the "C", for "Combined". (In my
> search, I also found alternatives "Bon" or "Bonnie", and "Cambridge" [UK]
>or "nothing" mentioned by those who might know, but in no case as
> anybo
Radford Neal wrote:
>
> Finally, I doubt very much that the "C" language stands for "computer".
> What would it's predecessor language, called "B", have stood for?
>
>Radford Neal
Believe it or not, "Basic". And the "C", for "Combined". (In my
search,
I also found alternatives "Bon" or
Hear, hear ! S-plus could have been a Microsoft product. It's
bloated and slow and it's everywhere.
Of course C does not stand for "computer".
The naming chain is CPL => BCPL => B => C. See Steve
Summit, C Programming FAQ's, number 20.38.
At 12:59 AM + 2/23/00, Radford Neal wrote:
>In articl
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> S-Plus is a powerful object-oriented language based on the S
> language (created at the same place that created the C language -
> ATT Bell Labs - C is for "computer" S for "statistics").
Usually, I find this sort o
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> Hello, my name is Thomas and I will be attending graduate school in the
>fall '00 for a masters program in applied statistics. Some of the schools
>to which I have applied have a course in statistical comp
Those are excellent questions Thomas. Many programs expect students to learn
statistical computing "by accident". Statistical computing is too important for
applied statistics to let that happen.
S-Plus is an excellent statistical computing
tool. You can look at a syllabus for a s
Hello, my name is Thomas and I will be attending graduate school in the
fall '00 for a masters program in applied statistics. Some of the schools
to which I have applied have a course in statistical computing, which
requires knowledge of a high-level programming knowledge. Other schoo
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