User loginNavigation |
Lisp-Stat does not seem to be in good health lately.The Journal of Statistical Software http://www.jstatsoft.org/ has a Special Volume devoted to the topic: "Lisp-Stat, Past, Present and Future". In the world of statistics, it appears that XLISP-STAT http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/xlsinfo/xlsinfo.html has lost out to the S family of languages: S / R / S-plus:
In fact, the S languages are not statistical per se; instead they provide an environment within which many classical and modern statistical techniques have been implemented. An article giving an excellent overview of the special volume is: "The Health of Lisp-Stat" http://www.jstatsoft.org/v13/i10/v13i10.pdf Some of the articles describe the declining user base of the language due to defections:
whilst other articles describe active projects using XLisp-Stat, often leveraging the power of the language, in particular for producing dynamic graphics. The S family of languages, originally developed at Bell Labs, has much to recommend it. S is an expression language with functional and class features. However, as the original creator and main developer of XLisp-Stat, (and now R developer) Luke Tierney explains in "Some Notes on the Past and Future of Lisp-Stat" http://www.jstatsoft.org/v13/i09/v13i09.pdf ,
By ibuckley at 2005-04-05 12:57 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 20824 reads
|
Browse archives
Active forum topics |
Recent comments
17 weeks 4 days ago
17 weeks 4 days ago
17 weeks 4 days ago
39 weeks 5 days ago
44 weeks 15 hours ago
45 weeks 4 days ago
45 weeks 4 days ago
48 weeks 2 days ago
1 year 6 days ago
1 year 6 days ago