On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Erich Subscriptions < erich.s...@neuwirth.priv.at> wrote:
> Just a very brief footnote. > I is easy to write badly structured spreadsheets. > But if people dong this would not have spreadsheets > and be forded to write code, they probably also > would write badly structured code. > Very true. There is a very old quote: "You can write FORTRAN in any language." Basically FORTRAN was, I think, the very first "high level" language (1957 - COBOL was in 1959) and it had very poor (NO) structuring. Coding it in is much like writing a bad mathematical proof (yes, I know FORTRAN). When better languages came along, the original programmers wrote code in the "if it were only FORTRAN" mode. ref: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fortran > > There is a lot of bad R code around also! > > -- Heisenberg may have been here. http://xkcd.com/1770/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
