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JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Progra...
I believe that R was originally an implementation of S in Scheme, because of the restrictive commercial licensing of S and the desire to have a free-as-in-beer alternative that was S-compatible. This comes through in things like R's metaprogramming:
https://adv-r.hadley.nz/meta-big-picture.html#meta-big-pictu...
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