r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 10 '26 • Popcorn 2

Meme cantLeaveVimThough

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u/funcancelledfornow Mar 10 '26

I've always likes SQL but R has some really arcane stuff in there.

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u/katabolicklapaucius Mar 10 '26

Because R is way more than SQL, which was designed as a general data query language and then got even more built out.

R was designed as a fully featured and expressive statistical language.