Background: I like 'r'. I use Rstudio for it - it is a nice IDE. I use the revolution Analytics version of 'r', "revolution R Open". I find that I type the same stuff in the annotation and struct...

When using methods which return blocks they can be very convenient. However, when you have to string a few of them together it gets messy really quickly for instance, you have to call 4 URLs in s...

Structured programming languages typically have a few control structures, like while, if, for, do, switch, break, and continue that are used to express high-level structures in source code. Howeve...

I have read some articles on all subjects, but I don't quite get the differences.

Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Series uses his own procedural assembly languaged called MIX. Now, the question becomes: should Knuth have used a functional language to describe hi...