Re: [R] Some general comments

2025-06-15 Thread Richard O'Keefe
There are programming languages where something like pipe notation is all but inevitable, being trivally programmer-definable. What they have in common is that a partially applied function is a function value, and the pipe operator is semantically just another yawn ho-hum higher order function wit

Re: [R] Some general comments -- Pascal

2025-06-15 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On doing things with SQL commands, well THERE is a language that has grown and changed a lot. And a language in which obviously equivalent things aren’t because of SQL’s inconsistent three-valued logic. With a really big standard and a dizzying array of implementations that fail to conform in oh

Re: [R] Some general comments -- Pascal

2025-06-15 Thread avi.e.gross
I did not intend to segue into the fates of other languages except insofar as R is like many others that can be evolving while both attracting new "clients" and uses and shedding others including g some who decide some other language may suit them best. I am happy to hear versions of PASCAL are

Re: [R] Some general comments -- Pascal

2025-06-15 Thread JRG via R-help
I'll add that my current favorite editor is CudaText, written in Object Pascal. (And I too am a fan of Double Commander.) ---JRG On Sunday, June 15th, 2025 at 9:19 AM, J C Nash wrote: > > > Pascal is still used, though sometimes under slightly different names. An > actively maintained > p

Re: [R] Some general comments -- Pascal

2025-06-15 Thread J C Nash
Pascal is still used, though sometimes under slightly different names. An actively maintained piece of software I use extensively is Double Commander. This is built using Free Pascal, which will (at last try) run my 1989 "Compact Numerical Methods" codes. If you use optim(), you are using my "B