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Probably there aren't legitimate semantic or syntactic similarities between the three.

But for proposes of a TL;DR, I believe that a qualitative description of the situation should suffice.

I'll try again:

TL;DR: The language R lacks the quality without a name.

Or:

Jeeze, now I know why none of my previous attempts to learn a little R were fruitful.

Or:

The language R seems to have been developed in isolation and thus it fails to adhere to any particular convention--it is its own beast. Further, it sometimes lacks self-referential integrity and coherence.

Or:

haha cf. PHP or Excel.

:)



I voted you up here because you were below zero and I was also about to post a comment comparing R to PHP, but I'll mention that I frequently downvote one line posts that start with "TL;DR". The concept of "too long didn't read" implies (to me, and probably others) that that the article isn't worth reading. If I think the article is worth reading, and the short comment isn't incredibly insightful, I'd usually prefer such comments to be at the bottom of the page and grayed out.


Oh, I hadn't considered "too long, DON'T read". Hm. This article is worth reading if you're interested in R but not yet well acquainted with it.




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