Have you used R?<p>As both a heavy R user and a software engineer, I can promise you that one of the quintessential aspects of R is it&#x27;s actually &quot;written by statisticians, for statisticians.&quot;<p>You can&#x27;t accuse R of having great code and language design. Or good code and language design. Or even mediocre code and language design.<p>Imagine what you would get if you got a million monkeys drunk, put them on a roller coaster with laptops, and had them bang keys while they were upside down on loops. And then the result suddenly, miraculously runs and produces output. Now you understand R&#x27;s software design.