The basic principle of R emanates from programming languages built in the 1960s, Peng says. “In that sense, it’s kind of an old technology in the way it was originally designed.” ...

Table stakes for a general purpose language is some kind of interop story for c. It’s highly unlikely anyone is going to write a BLAS from scratch in your new language, for example.

The R programming language leans more frequently to the cutting edge of data science, giving businesses the latest data analysis tools. The problem: With loose standards and scores of diverse ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first ...

As programming languages go, there’s no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the most popular language for data science. But is ...

There's no clear agreement about what's behind statistical programming language R's recent apparent rise. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer July 6, 2020 at 5:35 a.m. PT ...

Python, like Java, is a general-purpose programming language; however, unlike Java, it’s pretty easy to learn and to use. As such, it gets used for all sorts of things, leading to “explosive ...