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What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language? (programming.dev)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

R. because it's really easy to work on spreadsheets. i know there's pandas for python but at that time RStudio made it look really attractive. i will do anything not to work on excel.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    When I took biostatistics in college I asked to use python instead of R to do my assignments and they said no

    My only real complaint at the time was using <- to define variables but I felt really strongly about it and that I wanted to use fancy snake language

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