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What's the dumbest reason you've learned a programming language? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by andioop@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months 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