Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:04:06 PM UTC+5:30, Phil Lord wrote:
> Emanuel Berg  writes:
> > What is R?
> 
> A programming language designed for doing stats. It's a really, really
>> bizarre language which messes your head up, but is perfect for stats.
> 
> And, yes, there is an emacs package for it. Very good too!
> 
> http://ess.r-project.org/

Also worth mentioning -- and theres babel, part of org-mode, part of 
(of-course) emacs with which one can do some things like piping shell/python -> 
elisp -> R very neatly
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#meta-programming-language