R devel - Aug 2016 - What happened to Ross Ihaka's proposal for a Common Lisp based R successor?

Why is the described system preferable to Julia?

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajskim at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I read this paper
> >
<https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf> and
> > haven't been able to find out what happened - I have seen some
sporadic
> > mention in message groups but nothing definitive. Does anyone know?
>
> Presumably Ross does...
>
> You get a hint if you go one level up and look for the newest file:
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> https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/New-System.pdf
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>
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> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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When it was being actively worked on, it had the advantage of existing.

Hadley

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Why is the described system preferable to Julia?
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajskim at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> > I read this paper
>> >
<https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf> and
>> > haven't been able to find out what happened - I have seen some
sporadic
>> > mention in message groups but nothing definitive. Does anyone
know?
>>
>> Presumably Ross does...
>>
>> You get a hint if you go one level up and look for the newest file:
>>
>> https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/New-System.pdf
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>> Office: A 4.23
>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>>
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Is it conceivable that Julia could be ported to use R syntax in a way that
would allow the vastly larger numbers of R programmers to seamlessly
switch? Or equivalently, could an iteration of R itself do this?

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 9:00 AM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>
wrote:
> When it was being actively worked on, it had the advantage of existing.
>
> Hadley
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Kenny Bell <kmbell56 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Why is the described system preferable to Julia?
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, 4:50 AM peter dalgaard <pdalgd at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 05 Aug 2016, at 06:41 , Andrew Judson <ajskim at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I read this paper
> >> >
<https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf>
> and
> >> > haven't been able to find out what happened - I have seen
some
> sporadic
> >> > mention in message groups but nothing definitive. Does anyone
know?
> >>
> >> Presumably Ross does...
> >>
> >> You get a hint if you go one level up and look for the newest
file:
> >>
> >> https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/New-System.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> >> Phone: (+45)38153501
> >> Office: A 4.23
> >> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
> >>
> >> ______________________________________________
> >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
> >>
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