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

[Emanuel Berg]

phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) 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/

Cool! I like stats, like all boys, I was about to say. Probably
MATLAB draw some inspiration from R, in that case. And possibly
even from FORTRAN, the legacy "number crunching language" number
one. (Or so they say.)

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