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by epistasis 2381 days ago
R is lisp variant with a ton of syntactic sugar and vectorization of the basic data types. Calling it a scripting language would indicate that you haven't liked at it much as a language.

Sure, most of the matrix operations and tight loops are implemented in FORTRAN or C++, but that's for performance reasons. The same would happen with Python, and I don't think it would be fair to call Python a scripting language either; it also has a ton of Lisp like qualities.