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LazarusRevives  ·  2839 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use (finally)

It's interesting that this software is so jargon-ed that it can simply go by the letter R. Which reminds me of a video I watched of a lecture delivered by a statistician who was discussing how jargon can inhibit the accessibility of knowledge. He made several more interesting points...I'll try and find it so I can share. Can't seem to locate it now.





Devac  ·  2839 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A+, B, C, C++, C#, D, E, F, F#, J and K are also programming languages.

coffeesp00ns  ·  2837 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ok. question. How does one vocalize "C#"

In my world it's "C sharp", because the octothorpe is also the symbol used for denoting the raising of a pitch by a half step.

Devac  ·  2837 days ago  ·  link  ·  

C Sharp, yes. That's also the case of F Sharp (F#). Shame there are no C♭ or F♭ though ;).

MadEmperorYuri  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And Python, Algol, Ada, Ruby, Perl, Java, Swift, Scheme, Cobol, Go, Dart, and Lua are somehow better names?

Devac  ·  2838 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Was I making an argument for it being better or worse? I don't think so. I did list some that show widely-accepted use of single-letter names for programming languages.