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S Superseded

S
KindProgramming language
Appeared1976
StatusSuperseded
CreatorJohn Chambers / Bell Labs
FamilyS
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Bell Labs' statistical language — turned into the commercial S-PLUS, then reborn free as R, which is what the name now means in practice.

Succeeded by R
Created by John M. Chambers
Descendants R

John Chambers's S (1976) — Bell Labs' statistics language — made data frames, vector operations, and interactive analysis the model every statistical language copied.\n\nR is its open clone; S-PLUS commercialized it; the tidyverse is its descendant. The ACM awarded Chambers the 1998 Software System Award.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language)