Computing Environments for Data Analysis III: Programming Environments
John Alan McDonald, Jan Ole Pedersen · SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing · 1988
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).