&quot;Good software is written by programmers.&quot;<p>Well I think that everybody will agree that R is not <i>good</i> software. It&#x27;s still <i>useful</i>, though.<p>A couple of idiotic things about R have already been posted in this thread, let me add one of my pet peeves: &quot;how does one get the path of the currently executing script?&quot;. Last time I looked, the answer was &quot;there is no way to do so without relying on implementation details that can and have changed between minor releases.&quot;. Lol, that&#x27;s pathetic.<p>Now that Microsoft has made substantial investments in R, I hope that at least they&#x27;ll fix the major issues in embedding R through the C api. (and no, Rcpp is substandard - it doesn&#x27;t even support the msvc compiler).