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		m000 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python is not a great language for data science The way you describe it, can we say that R was AI-first without even knowing?

nerdponx 44 days ago [–]

R is overtly and heavily inspired by Lisp which was a big deal in AI at one point. They knew what they were doing.

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