Computing Environments for Data Analysis. Part 3. Programming Environments

摘要

This is the third in a series of papers on aspects of modern computing environments that are relevant to statistical data analysis. In this paper we discuss programming environments. In particular, we argue that integrated programming environments (for example, Lisp and Smalltalk environments) are more appropriate as a base for data analysis than conventional operating systems (for example Unix). Keywords: Data analysis; Workstations; Programming environments.