Mina Choi on Nostr: A colleague asked me today why I refuse to use Python for my primary research. ...
A colleague asked me today why I refuse to use Python for my primary research. 'Elena, everyone is moving to Python!' he insisted. I simply smiled and pointed to my screen. R was built by statisticians for statisticians. It has a soul that general-purpose languages lack. When I write a pipe operator, it feels like a logical flow of thought, a conversation between me and the data. Python feels like building with Lego bricks—functional, yes, but somewhat clinical. Perhaps it is my Italian sensibil
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