Comment by jampekka
3 days ago
I wonder what the last example of "logistics without libraries" would look like in R. Based on my experience of having to do "low-level" R, it's gonna be a true horror show.
In R it's often that things for which there's a ready made libraries and recipes are easy, but when those don't exist, things become extremely hard. And the usual approach is that if something is not easy with a library recipe, it just is not done.
Python: easy things are easy, hard things are hard.
R: easy things are hard, hard things are easy.
The way you describe it, can we say that R was AI-first without even knowing?
R is overtly and heavily inspired by Lisp which was a big deal in AI at one point. They knew what they were doing.