看到谢老大博客里面在讨论一场大辩论。今天看mail list有一场辩论的集合，据说很多大佬也参加了，不知道是不是一场。感觉这些辩论还是挺关乎R民的前途的，毕竟是大家干活的家伙事儿，改成啥样子得关注关注，尤其是2/8里面的2的高谈阔论。
from r mail list:
The future of R - Ross Ihaka stirs discussions around the web
Hello all,
There is currently a (very !) lively discussions happening around the
web, surrounding the following topics:
1) Is R efficient? (scripting wise, and performance wise)
2) Should R be written from scratch?
3) What should be the license of R (if it was made a new)?
Very serious people have taken part in the debates so far. I hope to let
you know of the places I came by, so you might be able to follow/participate
in these (IMHO) important discussions.
The discussions started in the response for the following blog post on
Xi'An's blog:
http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/insane/
Followed by the (short) response post by Ross Ihaka:
http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/simply-start-over-and-build-something-better/
Other discussions started to appear on Andrew Gelman's blog:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/09/ross_ihaka_to_r.html
And (many) more responses started to appear in the hackers news website:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687054
