Message-ID: <20030501092237.45797354.tobias_verbeke@skynet.be>
Date: 2003-05-01T07:22:37Z
From: Tobias Verbeke
Subject: [R-gui] Re: [R] Feedback about SciViews?
In-Reply-To: <87k7dcorpd.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>
> > last year or two I've seen some very impressive platform
> > independent GUI's built with java.
>
> Not for R. One could argue for Python in the same light, as well.
I fully agree. Platform-independence is one thing,
freedom another. R is free-as-in-freedom-software,
so it would really be a pity not to use a powerful
free-as-in-freedom-language to build R-GUI(s), be it
Python or another one.
This being said, any project to bring R
on any computer in the world is to be praised,
but please let R as such not be contaminated with
a language that doesn't come out of the mouth
of a healthy gnu...
acolyte of service,
Tobias