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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (24 children)

"Gods, that's stupid. Why is it being done this way? Have they never heard of naming conventions? Is the language really that awfully designed?"

Learns PHP to find out more.

"Yup..."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

R. because it's really easy to work on spreadsheets. i know there's pandas for python but at that time RStudio made it look really attractive. i will do anything not to work on excel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

When I took biostatistics in college I asked to use python instead of R to do my assignments and they said no

My only real complaint at the time was using <- to define variables but I felt really strongly about it and that I wanted to use fancy snake language

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