On Apr 11, 11:30 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:15 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apparently a new scientific computing language... > > >http://www.r-bloggers.com/julia-i-love-you/ > > Wow, that article suggests that R is *hideously slow* for recursion. > I didn't know that.
Yes, this is a very common complaint about R. So people do things like Rcpp [1]. People still love R, though, for its slowness and all. [1] http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
