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by goatlover 3531 days ago
What, that you clicked a button and JS did something back in 95 when Netscape introduced it? The same could be said for Visual Basic for any language that had callback code attached to a button click. You do realize that Python, Perl, etc could be written to handle GUI code back then as well.
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JSDave 3528 days ago
JS has been focused on event handling types of problems while python and perl were used for many other types of problems. You can build a GUI with R, but it wasn't made for it.
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PrimHelios 3527 days ago
>You can build a GUI with R

Why would anybody do that to themselves?

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